AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs Intel Arc A580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

Intel Arc A580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 175W)

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Arc A580 +725%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Arc A580

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Alchemist(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

24

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.536 TFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

DG2-512

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

406 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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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