NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 2

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

-

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Barts

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

254W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

Shader Model

5.0

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