AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (127W vs 175W)

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830 +20%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Feb 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

14

960

Shading Units

1120

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cypress

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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