AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 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 96.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +7%

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Bonaire

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

160 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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