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Graphics card overview

Radeon HD 6850

AMD

Radeon HD 6850

1024 Mb GDDR5 Released 21 Oct 2010 DESKTOP
Radeon HD 6850

Core configuration

GPUBarts
ArchitectureATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs960 : 48 : 32
Raytracing Coresnone
Performance1488.00 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth128.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6850 is a graphics card released by AMD on 21 Oct 2010. The graphics card houses the Barts die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 1,700 million transistors on a 40 nm, 255 mm² die.

Radeon HD 6850 pros and cons

  • Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards
Radeon HD 6850 Radeon HD 6850 Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Compare
Shader units 960 640
ROPs 32 16
Graphics processor Barts Cape Verde
Process size 40 nm 28 nm
Memory 1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective)		 1024 Mb GDDR5 (1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective)
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Memory bandwidth 128.00 Gb/s 72.00 Gb/s
Release date 21 Oct 2010 15 Feb 2012

Benchmarks

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 22
  • Radeon HD 6850 20

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield 4

  • Radeon HD 6850 20

FPS (higher is better)