NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +191%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2010

Tesla

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

127W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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