Steam Deck GPU 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 ranking625not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.05no data
Power efficiency2.75no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBartsVan Gogh
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)25 February 2022 (2 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 data1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)127 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate37.2051.20
Floating-point processing power1.488 TFLOPS1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs4832
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 x16no data
Length198 mm298 mm
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s88 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-DisplayPort1x USB Type-C
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 Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 25 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 127 Watt 15 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 746.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6850 and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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