AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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

416 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +18%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

16

-

1440

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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