NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +1797%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 40

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

960

184

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

254W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Barts

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

295 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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