AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

6752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +1229%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

1440

Shading Units

8192

72

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GA102

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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