GeForce GTX 750 GM206 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 ranking619not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.96no data
Power efficiency2.86no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameBartsGM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)17 November 2015 (8 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 cores960512
Core clock speedno data1087 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1239 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)127 Wattno data
Texture fill rate37.2039.65
Floating-point processing power1.488 TFLOPS1.269 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs4832

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 3.0 x16
Length198 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s80.19 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 HDMI
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® 1112 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 17 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

GTX 750 GM206 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6850 and GeForce GTX 750 GM206. We've got no test results to judge.


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