Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce 6800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce 6800 XT
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce 6800 XT
127
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce 6800 XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
NV42
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
September 2005
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x Molex
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
202 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
-
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
55.04
5.400
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1200 MBps
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0 (full)
Shader Model5.13.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-