AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

9056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +1604%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

82

1440

Shading Units

10496

72

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA102

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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