AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 5 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 254W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Apr 2006

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/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

1.440 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

NV43

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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