Radeon R7 260X and Radeon HD 6850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon HD 6850
Radeon R7 260X
3282
Radeon HD 6850
2030
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon HD 6850
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Bonaire
Barts
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
October 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
AGP
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
1,488.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
960
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
127 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
37.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-