In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FireStream 9370 are marginally better than the AMD Radeon HD 6850 Sapphire 1GB Edition.

The HD 6850 was released less than a year after the FireStream 9370, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The FireStream 9370 has 3072 MB more video memory than the HD 6850, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the FireStream 9370 also has superior memory performance overall.

The FireStream 9370 has 25.6 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the HD 6850, which means that the memory performance of the FireStream 9370 is slightly better than the HD 6850.

The Radeon HD 6850 Sapphire 1GB Edition has 960 Shader Processing Units and the FireStream 9370 has 1600. However, the actual shader performance of the HD 6850 is 372 and the actual shader performance of the FireStream 9370 is 858. The FireStream 9370 having 486 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the HD 6850 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The FireStream 9370 requires 225 Watts to run but there is no entry for the HD 6850. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the HD 6850.