P106 100 vs Radeon HD 6850

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing P106 100 and Radeon HD 6850. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between P106 100 and Radeon HD 6850. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  P106 100 Radeon HD 6850
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 127 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6850 has 5% more power consumption, than P106 100.
  • P106 100 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • P106 100 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • P106 100 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon HD 6850 - with TeraScale 2.
  • P106 100 is manufactured by 16 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • P106 100 is 52 mm longer, than Radeon HD 6850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 9−10
ultra / 1080p 21−24 5−6
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 21−24
medium / 1080p 40−45 12−14
The average gaming FPS of P106 100 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 241% more, than Radeon HD 6850.

Full Specs

  P106 100 Radeon HD 6850
Architecture Pascal TeraScale 2
Code name GP106 Barts
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 19 June 2017 21 October 2010
Pipelines 1280 960
Core clock speed 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1709 MHz
Transistor count 4,400 million 1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 136.7 37.20
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops 1,488.0 gflops
Length 250 mm 198 mm
Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA 6.1
Bus support AGP
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 139 Mh/s
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Design reference
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