AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (127W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

5440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +2068%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

50

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

6400

48

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GB205

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GB205

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

255 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

127W

TDP

220W

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

9.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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