AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +504%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

4480

72

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA100

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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