RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated109
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.92
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCypressno data
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date21 August 2012 (12 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores14403072
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate52.20no data
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs72no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 August 2012 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 31.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition is a desktop card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
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