AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

9312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +2495%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

1440

Shading Units

10752

72

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 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 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GB203

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

377 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

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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