AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FireStream 9350

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FireStream 9350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FireStream 9350 +31%

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FireStream 9350

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jun 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

18

-

960

Shading Units

1440

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cypress

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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