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
GEFORCE
P106-090
CORE STATE
GP106
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
P106-090
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
768
-20.0%
Shaders
960
768
-20.0%
TMUs
48
48
0.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Compute Units
12
—
SM Count
—
6
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1354 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1531 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
2002 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
3,072
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
73.49 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
73.49 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
2.352 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
73.49 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
36.74 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
254 W
75 W
TDP (W)
254
75
-70.5%
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Pascal
GPU Name
Barts
GP106
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
40 nm
16 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
4,400 million
Die Size
255 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.7M / mm²
22.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
CUDA
—
6.1
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
250 mm
9.8 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x1
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
—
Successor
Southern Islands
—