AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +15%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GM206

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-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

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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