AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 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 72.00GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (47W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +240%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

6

1440

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

3

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI FirePro 2450 Multi View

4

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 635 OEM

5

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

6

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A4000H

7

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI FireGL V7700

8

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI FirePro V8700

9

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

10

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10 GB

Related News

1

Apple's 2025 OS in Development: iOS 19 Codename 'Luck'

2

Apple's AI is Memory Hungry! The Entire iPhone 16 Lineup Comes with 8GB RAM

3

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

4

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

5

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

6

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

7

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

8

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

9

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

10

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2