AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 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 104.0GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM +32%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

14

-

960

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Bonaire

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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