GeForce GTX 750 v2 vs Radeon HD 6850 X2

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	562	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.80	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	Barts	GM206
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	19 September 2011 (13 years ago)	17 November 2015 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	960	512
Core clock speed	800 MHz	1038 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1188 MHz
Number of transistors	1,700 million	2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	254 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	38.40	38.02
Floating-point processing power	1.536 TFLOPS	1.217 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	48	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1050 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB/s	80.19 GB/s

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	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 September 2011	17 November 2015
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm

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