AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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 11 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Aug 2000

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

NV15

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

180 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

7.0

4.4

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

-

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