AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +91%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

32

-

1440

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 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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