Radeon X1650 GT vs Radeon HD 6850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Oct 2010
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
960
8
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
3.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
127W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV560
GPU Name
Barts
RV560 GT
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.312 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
230 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
