NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2175MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

5184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +1696%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Oct 2010

Quadro Ada

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

6144

Shading Units

960

192

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

127W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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