AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +309%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

0.363 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

112

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

362.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G92B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G92-240-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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