AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega II 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 475W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (825.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega II +846%

14.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon Pro Vega II

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1574 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1720 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

806 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

825.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

64

-

960

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.1 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

440.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.18 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.09 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

7.045 TFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

475W

300 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Vega 20

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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