AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (254W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +157%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 295

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

240

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

46.08 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

596.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT200B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G200-401-B3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

289W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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