GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
CORE STATE
Barts
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
254 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 2
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
VS
GPU
Arc A550M
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2050 MHz
TDP
60 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
—
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
A550M
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
2,048
+113.3%
Shaders
960
2,048
+113.3%
TMUs
48
128
+166.7%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
256
Clocks
Base Clock
—
900 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2050 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
131.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
262.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
8.397 TFLOPS
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
16.79 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
16
XMX Cores
—
256
Power
TDP
254 W
60 W
TDP (W)
254
60
-76.4%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Barts
DG2-512
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Alchemist
(Arc 5 Mobile)
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
21,700 million
Die Size
255 mm²
406 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.7M / mm²
53.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
—
Successor
Southern Islands
—