AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +6%

1.581 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GF110

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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