AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

423
Place in performance rating
427
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell
Barts
Code name
GM107
Desktop
Type
Desktop
19 September 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
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Price now
$243
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Value for money
4.55
Barts
GPU code name
GM107
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

960
Pipelines
640
800 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
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Boost Clock
1085 MHz
1,700 million
Transistor count
1,870 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
254 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
38.40
Texture fill rate
43.40
2x 1,536.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,389 gflops
960
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
1085 MHz
1,700 million
Number of transistors
1,870 million
254 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
2x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4200 MHz
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
134.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

0.57% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (960 vs 640)

More memory bandwidth (134.4 GB/s vs 80.19 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (75 Watt vs 254 Watt)

So, AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 .

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A performance benchmarks comparison

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