AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 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 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +966%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Dec 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

196 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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