AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +1859%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Mar 2024

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

5888

48

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD103

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

AD103-175-K1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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