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

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +527%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jul 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

64

-

1440

Shading Units

4096

72

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Vega 10

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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