AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro S9150

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FirePro S9150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (235W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro S9150 +230%

5.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro S9150

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Aug 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

44

-

960

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

158.4 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.069 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

235W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Hawaii

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

438 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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