AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA NVS 1000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA NVS 1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM NVS 1000 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 28.51GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 1000 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +386%

1.488 TFLOPS

NVS 1000

0.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVS 1000

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

891 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.51GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GK107

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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