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 RX 590
CORE STATE
Polaris 30
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1545 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 6850 X2
RX 590
Core Specs
Shading Units
960
2,304
+140.0%
Shaders
960
2,304
+140.0%
TMUs
48
144
+200.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
12
36
+200.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1545 MHz
GPU Clock
800 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
4.2 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.536 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
445.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
7.119 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
254 W
175 W
TDP (W)
254
175
-31.1%
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Barts
Polaris 30
Generation
Northern Islands
(HD 6800)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
1,700 million
5,700 million
Die Size
255 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
6.7M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
—
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
279 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Evergreen
Arctic Islands
Successor
Southern Islands
Vega