AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +186%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Mar 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1074 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

28

-

960

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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