AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (254W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +460%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jun 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

64

-

960

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Fiji

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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