AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +21%

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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