AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD FirePro S9100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 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 225W)

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100 +183%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 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

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

40

960

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Hawaii

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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