AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M +188%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

G92

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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