AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition +750%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1247 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/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

98.94 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

127W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Vega 10

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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