AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 and ATI FirePro 2260 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• 18.6x more texture fill rate: 37.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
• 24x more pipelines: 960 vs 40
• 37.2x better floating-point performance: 1,488.0 gflops vs 40 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• 17.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1953 vs 113
• Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 434 vs 431
• 11x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 304
• 11x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 304

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

• 8.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 127 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU 2: ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1953 113
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	434 431
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 304
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 304

Compare specifications (specs)