AMD Radeon HD 6850: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The Radeon HD 6850 is a graphics card by AMD, built on the 40 nm process and based on the Barts graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
Barts
Model number
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
Die Size
255 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 21st, 2010
Family
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
179 USD
Predecessor
Evergreen
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
1024 MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
Bandwidth
128.0 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
37.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
1,488 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
GPU Clock
775 MHz

Render Config

Shading Units
960
TMUs
48
ROPs
32
Compute Units
12
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
198 mm
7.8 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
127 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x mini-DisplayPort
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Board Number
C223

API support

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
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AMD Radeon HD 6850: GPU Specs & Benchmarks