Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile vs HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCypressPicasso
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 August 2012 (12 years ago)22 October 2019 (5 years 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 cores1440704
Core clock speed725 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate52.2061.60
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPS1.971 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs7244

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data

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 outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 August 2012 22 October 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 11 Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 906.7% lower power consumption.

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
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