AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

ATI Radeon HD 4850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +92%

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

Radeon HD 4850

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

186W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV770

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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