AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM 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 72.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (47W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +142%

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Sep 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

6

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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