GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon HD 6850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (127W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+576%
10070
Radeon HD 6850
1488
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+130%
11078
Radeon HD 6850
4799
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 20
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
960
184
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
127W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
Barts
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Turing
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
40 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.0