| Attribute | Radeon HD 6850M × | GeForce GT 435M × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2011 | 2010 |
| Reference card | AMD Radeon HD 6850M 675 MHz 1 GB | Nvidia GeForce GT 435M 590 MHz 1 GB |
| GPU brand | AMD | Nvidia |
| GPU name | Granville | GF108 |
| Market | Laptop | Laptop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 575 | 650 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | Radeon HD 6850M | GeForce GT 435M |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 51.2 | 25.6 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 128 | 128 |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 800 | 800 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,600 | 1,600 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 50 | 35 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 9.2 | 2.6 |
| Render output processors | 16 | 4 |
| Texture mapping units | 40 | 16 |
| Shading units | 800 | 96 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 920 | 250 |
| Compute units | 10 | - |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 23 | 10.4 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| PassMark | - | 661 |
| PassMark Direct Compute | - | 301 |
| 3DMark 11 Graphics | 9,336 | 7510.5 |
| 3DMark Vantage Graphics | 5,142 | - |
| CLBenchmark Raytrace | 25,538 | 16,706 |
| 3DMark06 | 1469.5 | - |
| Cloud Gate Factor | 11.82 | 9.19 |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | - | 4.25 |
| Sky Diver Factor | 104.83 | 68.85 |
| Fire Strike Factor | 13.56 | 7.97 |