GeForce 8800 GTS 112 vs Radeon HD 6850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking626not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.05no data
Power efficiency2.75no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameBartsG80
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)19 November 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores960112
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)127 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate37.2028.00
Floating-point processing power1.488 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs3220
TMUs4828

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).

Bus supportAGPno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length198 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB640 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s64 GB/s

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, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1111.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 19 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 640 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 127 Watt 150 Watt

HD 6850 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 18.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112. We've got no test results to judge.


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