Radeon HD 6850: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon HD 6850 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.09% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6850 sales 21 October 2010 at a recommended price of $179 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 198 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 127 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 623 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 1.05 | |
| Power efficiency | 2.79 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Barts | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Design | reference | |
| Release date | 21 October 2010 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $179 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 6850's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 960 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 127 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 37.20 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.488 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6850 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | AGP | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 198 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort | |
| Eyefinity | + | |
| HDMI | + |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 6850. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| CrossFire | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6850, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6850. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Send your test results of Radeon HD 6850.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6850 is GeForce GTX 460 SE, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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