NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI and AMD Radeon HD 6850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

AMD Radeon HD 6850

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

Around 67% higher pipelines: 960 vs 576

Pipelines	960 vs 576

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD Radeon HD 6850
PassMark - G3D Mark		1967
PassMark - G2D Mark		434
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD Radeon HD 6850
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	N11E-GT	Barts
Launch date	1 November 2010	21 October 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	838
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$179
Price now		$99.99
Value for money (0-100)		28.63
Technical info
Core clock speed	535 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	576	960
Floating-point performance		1,488.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		37.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		127 Watt
Transistor count		1,700 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Bus support		AGP
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		198 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	11
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		128.0 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire