AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 315

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA NVS 315

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 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 14.00GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +1988%

2.088 TFLOPS

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVS 315

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1440

Shading Units

48

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF119

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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