AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX 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

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +344%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1440

Shading Units

128

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

141W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92B

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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