AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon Pro W6600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6600 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2580MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6600 +521%

9.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon Pro W6600

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2331 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2580 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

28

-

960

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.1 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

289.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.49 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.247 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

577.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 23

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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