AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 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 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 12x more pipelines: 960 vs 80
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 20.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1967 vs 94
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 434 vs 206
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 October 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines 960 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1967 vs 94
PassMark - G2D Mark 434 vs 206

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1967
94
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
434
206
Name AMD Radeon HD 6850 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 1967 94
PassMark - G2D Mark 434 206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 RV6xx
Code name Barts M82-XT + RS780M
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 21 October 2010 8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 838 841
Price now $99.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 28.63

Technical info

Floating-point performance 1,488.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 960 80
Texture fill rate 37.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 127 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million 362 Million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support AGP
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire