Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile vs HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Primary Details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Cypress	Picasso
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	21 August 2012 (11 years ago)	22 October 2019 (4 years ago)
Current price	$231	$592

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1440	704
Core clock speed	725 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1400 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	151 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	52.20	61.60
Floating-point performance	2,088 gflops	1,830 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.4
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Pros & Cons Summary

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Recency	21 August 2012	22 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	151 Watt	15 Watt

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