AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6850 X2 sales 19 September 2011. This is TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 2x 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2x 134.4 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is Dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 254 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.45 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon HD 6850 X2's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Code name
Barts
Type
Desktop
Release date
19 September 2011
Technical specs
Radeon HD 6850 X2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6850 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon HD 6850 X2's 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).
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6850 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6850 X2.
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6850 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 6850 X2. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
5.45
Passmark
2534
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon HD 6850 X2 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 6850 X2 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 6850 X2 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 460 v2, which is slower by 2% and lower by 1 position in our rating.
