AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +3%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Sep 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

960

Shading Units

960

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

254W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Barts

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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