AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +231%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

32

-

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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