AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +367%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jan 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1130 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

36

-

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

449.3 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 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 10

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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