Overview of Radeon

Hello fans of video Radeon. Today, we are with you compare two powerful cards, first with their Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 6850 2.

For the beginning is not a lot of theory, between the video cards one year has passed, but both cards are made by those rules. 40 nm process. Both accelerator have 32 blocks ROP, 1 GB GDDDR5 memory and the effective frequency of 4000 MHz. Both are realized with the same bus speed of 256 bits with the same bandwidth of 128 GB / sec. Generally HD 6850 is a simplified version of the architecture by the HD 5850.

The new card is one of the 4, and not one of the 5-executive processors, fewer transistors and lower power consumption and heat. Still, despite the perfection of architecture HD 5850 is stronger than the HD 6850 by a large number of executive processes (288), and a larger number of texture units (72).

AMD has just decided to play marketing games, because the ear HD 6850 should be better than HD 5850. But the difference between video cards is released almost a year and this affects the performance and the video card.

The outcome of the tests, we can say that the HD 5850 for all his power only works with Diretix 10.0, while the HD 6850 shows the best of their ability during a Diretx 11. Though the same data as in comparison, but the video card designed for 2 generations of computers.

Our advice for gamers with cars 2008-2010 model year is the Radeon HD 5850, and by the more recent models, of course, Radeon HD 685.

Source: AMD