AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD FirePro D700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 6GB VRAM FirePro D700 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 274W)

AMD FirePro D700 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (263.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro D700 +134%

3.482 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

FirePro D700

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1370 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

263.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tahiti

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

274W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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