AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX 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 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +226%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

960

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

141W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G92B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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