AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (80W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +89%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

18

Compute Units

10

-

1440

Shading Units

640

72

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

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

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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