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 B580
CORE STATE
BMG-G21
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2670 MHz
TDP
190 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe2-HPG
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2024
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
B580
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
2,560
+166.7%
Shaders
960
2,560
+166.7%
TMUs
48
160
+233.3%
ROPs
32
80
+150.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
20
Clocks
Base Clock
—
2670 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2670 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
2375 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
12,288
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
456.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB (per EU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
18 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
213.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
427.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
13.67 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
1.709 TFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
27.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
20
XMX Cores
—
160
Power
TDP
254 W
190 W
TDP (W)
254
190
-25.2%
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Xe2-HPG
GPU Name
Barts
BMG-G21
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Battlemage
(Arc 5)
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
19,600 million
Die Size
255 mm²
272 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.7M / mm²
72.1M / 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
Length
—
272 mm
10.7 inches
Height
—
115 mm
4.5 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
—
249 USD
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Evergreen
Alchemist
Successor
Southern Islands
—