AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 105.8GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (90W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +14%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GM206

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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