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
RADEON
Radeon R7 240
CORE STATE
Oland
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
780 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
R7 240
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
320
-66.7%
Shaders
960
320
-66.7%
TMUs
48
20
-58.3%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
12
5
-58.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
730 MHz
Boost Clock
—
780 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
28.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
6.240 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
499.2 GFLOPS
Power
TDP
254 W
30 W
TDP (W)
254
30
-88.2%
Suggested PSU
600 W
200 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Barts
Oland
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Volcanic Islands
(R7 200)
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
950 million
Die Size
255 mm²
77 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
6.7M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.2.170
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
Shader Model
5.0
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
—
168 mm
6.6 inches
Height
—
69 mm
2.7 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x VGA
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
—
69 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Sea Islands
Successor
Southern Islands
Pirate Islands