AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 460

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 112.0GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 +2%

2.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

14

-

1440

Shading Units

896

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Baffin

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI Radeon X1650 GTO

2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

3

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro V7300X

4

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

5

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

6

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

7

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

8

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs Intel Arc Pro A40

9

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM

10

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Related News

1

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

2

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

3

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

4

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

5

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

6

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

7

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

8

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

9

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

10

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes