AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +417%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2011

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

254W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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