AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

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

2720 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X +695%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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Radeon Pro W6800X

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Aug 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2087 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

60

1120

Shading Units

3840

56

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.4 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

500.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.06 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.03 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1002 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 21

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

-

Power Connectors

Apple MPX

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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