AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 127W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +148%

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

12

-

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

127W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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