AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

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 Vega Frontier Edition +781%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

64

960

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Vega 10

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

Board Design

127W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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