AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs Intel Arc B580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

Intel Arc B580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 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 190W)

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Arc B580 +818%

13.67 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Arc B580

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2670 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2670 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

456.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB (per EU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

18 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

213.6 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

427.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.34 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.67 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.709 TFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

BMG-G21

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

SRPMF

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Xe2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

19.6 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

272 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

1.4

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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