AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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

Lower TDP (151W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X +90%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

32

-

1440

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

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

31.04 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Antigua

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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