Radeon HD 6850M: specs and benchmarks

Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 6850M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.77% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6850M sales 4 January 2011. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6850M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking937
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency2.85of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGranville
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 6850M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6850M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed675 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,040 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate27.00of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1.08 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs40of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache80 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6850M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6850M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6850M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6850M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6850M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

HD 6850M
1.77

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD 6850M 1470

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6850M 6246

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6850M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p20
Full HD26

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 5−6
Counter-Strike 2 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Far Cry 5 5−6
Fortnite 8−9
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
Forza Horizon 5 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−12
Valorant 35−40

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 5−6
Counter-Strike 2 3−4
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 35−40
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Dota 2 21−24
Far Cry 5 5−6
Fortnite 8−9
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
Forza Horizon 5 4−5
Grand Theft Auto V 3−4
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
Metro Exodus 3−4
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
Valorant 35−40

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 5−6
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Dota 2 21−24
Far Cry 5 5−6
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
Valorant 35−40

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 8−9

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 5−6
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 12−14
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
Valorant 12−14

1440p
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 5−6
Hogwarts Legacy 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 3−4

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
Valorant 9−10

4K
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Dota 2 4−5
Far Cry 5 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 3−4

4K
Epic

Fortnite 3−4

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 6850M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6850M is GeForce 9800M GT SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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