GRID K260Q vs Radeon HD 6850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GRID K260Q and Radeon HD 6850, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GRID K260Q stacks up against Radeon HD 6850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  GRID K260Q Radeon HD 6850
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 127 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • GRID K260Q has 77% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6850.
  • GRID K260Q is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GRID K260Q has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GRID K260Q is build with Kepler architecture, and Radeon HD 6850 - with TeraScale 2.
  • GRID K260Q is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6850 - by 40 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 9−10
ultra / 1080p 9−10 5−6
QHD / 1440p 3−4 0−1
low / 720p 30−35 21−24
medium / 1080p 18−20 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GRID K260Q in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 58% more, than Radeon HD 6850.

Full Specs

  GRID K260Q Radeon HD 6850
Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK104 Barts
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 28 June 2013 21 October 2010
Pipelines 1536 960
Core clock speed 745 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 95.36 37.20
Floating-point performance 2,289 gflops 1,488.0 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126
CUDA 3.0
Bus support AGP
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 139 Mh/s
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