AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850M
- Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt vs 75 Watt |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M
- Around 1% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 675 MHz
- Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
- Around 20% higher pipelines: 960 vs 800
- Around 21% better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops
- 2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Core clock speed | 680 MHz vs 675 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 32.6 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 960 vs 800 |
Floating-point performance | 1,305.6 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Name | AMD Radeon HD 6850M | AMD Radeon HD 6970M |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 2270 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 656 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 3349 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 4.787 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 617.819 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.927 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 24.456 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 117.801 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3229 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3229 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon HD 6850M | AMD Radeon HD 6970M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale 2 | TeraScale 2 |
Code name | Granville | Blackcomb |
Launch date | 4 January 2011 | 4 January 2011 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 791 |
Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 675 MHz | 680 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 1,080.0 gflops | 1,305.6 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 800 | 960 |
Texture fill rate | 27 GTexel / s | 32.6 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt | 75 Watt |
Transistor count | 1,040 million | 1,700 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
Laptop size | large | large |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Memory |
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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 |