AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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)

416 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +25%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

16

-

1440

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

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

20.40 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 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

Polaris 21

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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