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 A580
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2000 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
A580
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
3,072
+220.0%
Shaders
960
3,072
+220.0%
TMUs
48
192
+300.0%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
384
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2000 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 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
256 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
1.536 TFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
24.58 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
24
XMX Cores
—
384
Power
TDP
254 W
175 W
TDP (W)
254
175
-31.1%
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Barts
DG2-512
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Alchemist
(Arc 5)
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
Dual-slot
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Evergreen
Xe Graphics
Successor
Southern Islands
Battlemage