AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 6850

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 127W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Feb 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

57W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV570

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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