AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X 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 R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X +311%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

Pirate Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

18

-

4096

Shading Units

1440

256

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

8.602 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

151W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

Cypress

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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