AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850M and AMD Radeon HD 6950M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850M

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 580 MHz

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 580 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6950M

Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 960 vs 800
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 1,113.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops
2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Texture fill rate	27.84 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 800
Floating-point performance	1,113.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6850M	AMD Radeon HD 6950M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Granville	Blackcomb
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,080.0 gflops	1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	960
Texture fill rate	27 GTexel / s	27.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0