AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +97%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GP108

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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