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    Maxwell GPU Surface Book vs Radeon HD 6850M

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 6850M, 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 Maxwell GPU Surface Book stacks up against Radeon HD 6850M, check out specs charts below.
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    Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 6850M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 6850M are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Maxwell GPU Surface Book or Radeon HD 6850M here:

    Maxwell GPU Surface Book Laptops
    Radeon HD 6850M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Maxwell GPU Surface Book Radeon HD 6850M
    Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 6850M have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Maxwell GPU Surface Book is build with Maxwell architecture, and Radeon HD 6850M - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of Maxwell GPU Surface Book is 379 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6850M.
    • Maxwell GPU Surface Book is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6850M - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Maxwell GPU Surface Book is 4212 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6850M.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 8−9 2−3
    ultra / 1080p 5−6 0−1
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 20−22 12−14
    medium / 1080p 10−12 3−4
    The average gaming FPS of Maxwell GPU Surface Book in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 116% more, than Radeon HD 6850M.

    Full Specs

      Maxwell GPU Surface Book Radeon HD 6850M
    Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
    Code name Surface Book Granville Pro/LP
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 1 October 2015 6 January 2011
    Pipelines 384 800
    Core clock speed 954 MHz 575 / 675 MHz
    Boost Clock 993 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 27.00
    Floating-point performance 1,080.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 800 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0
    OpenGL 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2
    Vulkan N/A
    CUDA +
    Laptop size large
    Optimus +
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