AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro W5500

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5500 +150%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500

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Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2020

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1744 MHz

Base Clock

-

1855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

18

-

1408

Shading Units

1440

88

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

163.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

10.45 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.224 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

326.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Cypress

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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