AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +54%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

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Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

20

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Curacao

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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