AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +40%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Mar 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

20W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP108

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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