AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM +28%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

VS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2015

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GM107

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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