AMD Radeon™ HD 6850 Graphics

Immerse yourself in spectacular DirectX® 11 gaming

Outstanding performance and spectacular image quality for the most demanding gamer

Get immersed with AMD Eyefinity technology
Second-generation DirectX® 11-capable graphics
Get fast applications and brilliant video with AMD App Acceleration

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Features

AMD Eyefinity Technology

Dive into the ultimate multiple display panoramic gaming experience¹

AMD App Acceleration

Stream video, HD videos, games, apps and more with incredible speed and performance²

AMD PowerPlay Technology

Take control of your performance with revolutionary AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology³

AMD HD3D Technology

Enter the third dimension with stereo 3D capable PCs⁴

AMD Crossfire™ Technology

Harness the power of multiple GPUs for extreme, high-definition gaming and 3D image quality⁵

Specs

	AMD Radeon™ HD 6850 GPU
Engine Clock	775 MHz
Memory	1GB GDDR5
Memory Clock	1000MHz
Memory Bandwidth	128GB/s (maximum)
Single Precision Compute Power	1.5 TFLOPs
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture	960 Stream Processors 48 Texture Units 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units 32 Color ROP Units
Bus Interface	PCI Express 2.1 x16
Graphics	"Eye-Definition" graphics DirectX® 11 support DirectCompute 11 Programmable hardware tessellation unit Accelerated multi-threading HDR texture compression Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 4.1 Support	Yes
Image Quality Enhancement Technology	Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes Adaptive anti-aliasing Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
Cutting-Edge Integrated Display Support	DisplayPort 1.2 Max resolution: 2560x1600 per display Multi-Stream Transport 21.6 Gbps bandwidth High bit-rate audio HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™) Max resolution: 1920x1200 Dual-link DVI with HDCP Max resolution: 2560x1600 VGA Max resolution: 2048x1536
Integrated HD audio controller	Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
AMD Technologies	AMD Eyefinity multidisplay technology¹ Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays Display grouping Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display AMD App Acceleration² OpenCL™ 1.1 Support DirectCompute 11 Accelerated video encoding, transcoding and upscaling UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 VC-1 MPEG-2 (SD & HD) MVC (Blu-ray 3D) MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid) Adobe Flash Enhanced Video Quality features Advanced post-processing and scaling Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch) Independent video gamma control Dynamic video range control Dual-stream HD (1080p) playback support DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support AMD HD3D technology⁴ Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support Blu-ray 3D support Stereoscopic 3D gaming 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology⁵ Dual GPU scaling AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology³ Dynamic power management with low power idle state Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations AMD Catalyst™ software and HD video configuration software Unified graphics display drivers Certified for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP AMD Catalyst Control Center™ Software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing special features of AMD Radeon products

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System requirements and recommendations:

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
500 Watt or greater power supply recommended⁶
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse and a display
DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
For an AMD CrossFireX™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required

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Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor's native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. SLS ("Single Large Surface") functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.
AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology and/or AMD's Universal Video Decoder (UVD).
AMD PowerPlay™ and AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain AMD Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at http://www.amd.com/HD3D.
AMD CrossFireX™ technology requires an AMD CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
Minimum recommended system power supply wattage is based on the specific graphics card and the typical power requirements of other system components. Your system may require more or less power. OEM and other pre-assembled PCs may have different power requirements.

OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission by Khronos.