ATI Radeon X1600 XT vs HD 6850M

Place in the ranking	886	1329
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.78	0.49
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	Granville	RV530
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	4 January 2011 (13 years ago)	1 October 2007 (17 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	800	no data
Core clock speed	675 MHz	590 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	157 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	42 Watt
Texture fill rate	27.00	2.360
Floating-point processing power	1.08 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	40	4

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	690 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	22.08 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

900p	20 +900%	2−3 −900%
Full HD	25 +733%	3−4 −733%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

0−1

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 +700%	1−2 −700%
Hitman 3	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +750%	2−3 −750%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +600%	5−6 −600%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 +700%	1−2 −700%
Hitman 3	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +750%	2−3 −750%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 +1100%	1−2 −1100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +600%	5−6 −600%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	3−4	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 +700%	1−2 −700%
Hitman 3	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	16−18 +750%	2−3 −750%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +900%	1−2 −900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 +1100%	1−2 −1100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +600%	5−6 −600%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4	0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Hitman 3	7−8 +600%	1−2 −600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 +1000%	1−2 −1000%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

0−1

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

0−1

This is how HD 6850M and ATI X1600 XT compete in popular games:

HD 6850M is 900% faster in 900p
HD 6850M is 733% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.03	0.30
Recency	4 January 2011	1 October 2007
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	42 Watt

HD 6850M has a 576.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1600 XT, on the other hand, has 19% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 6850M is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon X1600 XT in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6850M is a notebook card while Radeon X1600 XT is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.