Radeon HD 6850M vs Tesla C2070

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 6850M and Tesla C2070. 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 Radeon HD 6850M and Tesla C2070. 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.

Radeon HD 6850M is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon HD 6850M is only used in laptop graphics. It has 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 Radeon HD 6850M here:

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6850M Tesla C2070
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 238 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI
  Check Price
  • Tesla C2070 has 376% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6850M.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla C2070 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6850M.
  • Radeon HD 6850M is used in Laptops, and Tesla C2070 - in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6850M is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Tesla C2070 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6850M is 1 MHz higher, than Tesla C2070.
  • Radeon HD 6850M and Tesla C2070 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla C2070 is 2188 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6850M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 16−18
ultra / 1080p 0−1 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 12−14 30−35
medium / 1080p 3−4 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla C2070 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 300% more, than Radeon HD 6850M.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6850M Tesla C2070
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Granville Pro/LP GF100
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 6 January 2011 25 July 2011
Pipelines 800 448
Core clock speed 575 / 675 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 27.00 32.14
Floating-point performance 1,080.0 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 143.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Laptop size large
  Check Price