AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM 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 80.19GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1203MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM +65%

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

937 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GM206S

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

950 OEM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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