AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 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 64.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +100%

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

8

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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