AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 450 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)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +57%

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 450 OEM

0.947 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon R7 450 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Arctic 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

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.60 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

947.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 PRO2

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

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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