AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (45W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2012

Polaris

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

18

-

896

Shading Units

1440

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Cypress

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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