In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 8850M are massively better than the AMD Radeon R2 6010.

The Radeon HD 8850M has a 275 MHz higher core clock speed and 32 more Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon R2 6010. This results in the Radeon HD 8850M providing 22.2 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The Radeon HD 8850M has a 275 MHz higher core clock speed and 12 more Render Output Units than the Radeon R2 6010. This results in the Radeon HD 8850M providing 8.6 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R2 6010 was released over a year more recently than the Radeon HD 8850M, and so the Radeon R2 6010 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Radeon HD 8850M.

The Radeon HD 8850M has 2048 MB video memory, but the Radeon R2 6010 does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The Radeon HD 8850M has 640 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon R2 6010 has 128. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 8850M is 496 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon R2 6010 is 29. The Radeon HD 8850M having 467 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon HD 8850M delivers a significantly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the Radeon R2 6010.

The Radeon HD 8850M requires 45 Watts to run and the Radeon R2 6010 requires 10 Watts. The Radeon HD 8850M requires 35 Watts more than the Radeon R2 6010 to run. The difference is significant enough that the Radeon HD 8850M may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the Radeon R2 6010.