AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +149%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

240

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT200B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

289W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

3

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

4

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

5

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

6

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal

7

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

8

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

9

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

10

AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA T1000 8 GB

Related News

1

Complete Layout of Intel's Next-Gen LGA1851 Interface Exposed: A Comprehensive Look at PCIe and USB Features

2

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

3

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

4

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

5

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

6

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

7

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

8

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

9

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

10

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory