AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 6850M 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 - T-Rex (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).

AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 675 MHz
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	5 January 2012 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 675 MHz
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850M

Around 41% higher texture fill rate: 27 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 800 vs 480
Around 41% better floating-point performance: 1,080.0 gflops vs 768.0 gflops
Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 66 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Texture fill rate	27 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 480
Floating-point performance	1,080.0 gflops vs 768.0 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 66 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 6850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	804
PassMark - G2D Mark	324
Geekbench - OpenCL	11715
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.464
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	71.832
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1366
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2385
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1366
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2385
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 6850M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Turks	Granville
Launch date	5 January 2012	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1103	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops	1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	800
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	66 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0