AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +478%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT C9

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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