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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti has clock speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6850, which features a core clock frequency of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 960 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3466 points
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 1071 (45%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 43 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be 0% quicker than the Radeon HD 6850 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 256 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 41%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15408 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1504 (6%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 560 Ti Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2011 October 2010
Code Name GF114 Barts Pro
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 960
Texture Mapping Units 64 48
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1950 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

15 Responses to “GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850”
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Carlos says:

Hi man! this pages is excelent!, but I have a daubt about texel rate and Pixel rate...
How do you calculate these values? The Official NVidia page has diferent values about them.
Thx!

satan says:

this is the shittiest page ever
blindly copied numbers, no real comparison data
useless waste of bandwidth
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jesus says:

satan's just mad he gave me a blowjob and i didn't return the favor.

Atheist says:

Both satan and Jesus are mad cuz they aren't real.

Person says:

Athiest doesn't beleive in being mad, or anything else for that matter, so he's just there, wasting space.

Agnostic says:

But can we really know for sure?

TheTruthWhether you Like it or not says:

You cant ask someone to prove a negative, it doesnt work that way, for you to ask someone to prove something means you you have to prove it right first, otherwise your statement is botched.

Its really hard for anyone to disprove anything that hasnt been proven right yet, just as much as Id like you I cant prove that the easter bunny isnt real, or that the boggey man hiding in your closet isnt real.

All in all you cant ask someone "how do you know.. prove it" because the problem with that is that you havent proven your stance as correct yet, that means you cant ask someone to disprove you, when you have not proven to be correct in the first place.

Have a nice day,

ordinaryguy says:

lol. at comments. made my day.

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Atheist 2 says:

Atheist ftw!!!!

Hyrulien says:

Well the GTX 560 TI still costs around $220 while the HD 6850 is around $150. I personaly own a HD 6850 and I have no issues with it whatsoever and with the fact that it takes 43 less watts then the 560TI and costs $70 bucks cheaper I can afford to go crossfire with 2 HD 6850 for $300 bucks and 254 watts. Which would certaintly blow away the 560TI. If you went SLI with the 560 TI thats 340 watts and $440 bucks. it would most certanintly require you to buy a new psu 700 watts and up. Which I would say your safe around 550 watt psu with the hd 6850 in cf.

LarsV12 says:

My own experience shows the Gigabyte HD 6850 Windforce has great overclocking potential, while operating at relatively low temps [centigrade](37 low load, 56 high load) throughout a typical session. I'm using Sapphire TRIXX (don't like, nor use, EVGA Precision X or CCC Overdrive) for my overclocking as it allows great control over: voltages, core & mem' clocks and also fan speeds. Last i looked, i had (stable):- Core: 835, Mem: 1110 & voltage at spec'. The GPU-Z readouts are:- Pixel Fill: 26.7GP/sec, Texture Fill: 40.1GT/sec, and Mem. Bandwidth: 142.1GB/sec. Now, on those figures alone, it puts the 6850 ahead on both Mem' bandwidth & Pixel Fill. That, and the fact the card is: (1) cheaper than the GTX-560Ti, (2) running at far lower TDP power consumption ($aving the owner $$$ in lower power bills), makes it a far better buying prospect overall than the GTX-560Ti. Granted they're both old/aging cards now, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why anyone choosing between these two cards might sway in favor of the Red Team (imho of course). 😉

LarsV12 says:

UPDATE: After further voltage tweaking using Sapphire TRIXX, have the HD 6850 @ 1.231V. The overclocks sit at: core: 950, mem: 1175. At 950/1175, pixel fill: 30.4GP/s, Texture fill: 45.6GT/s, and Mem. Bandwidth: 150.4GB/sec .. i think on that type of huge o'cing headroom, the 6850 has to win, hands down.

Ofo says:

I have the MSI AMD Radeon 6850 OC-Power-Edition and is very fast. Very good G-Card !!!

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