AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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 25.60GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +234%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

6

-

1440

Shading Units

480

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Turks

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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