AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +64%

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

12

-

1440

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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