GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

CORE STATE Barts

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 254 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 2

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

CORE STATE Navi 31

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2245 MHz

TDP 260 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 3.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

3,977

167,913

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

4,814

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

144,142

passmark_directx_10

N/A

139

passmark_directx_11

N/A

300

passmark_directx_12

N/A

107

passmark_directx_9

N/A

310

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,180

passmark_g3d

N/A

27,089

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

15,016

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6850 X2

RX 7900 GRE

Core Specs

Shading Units

960

5,120 +433.3%

Shaders

960

5,120 +433.3%

TMUs

48

320 +566.7%

ROPs

32

160 +400.0%

Compute Units

12

80 +566.7%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2245 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

1880 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1880 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz 4.2 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

L3 Cache

—

64 MB

L0 Cache

—

64 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

359.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

718.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.536 TFLOPS

45.98 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

1,436.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

91.96 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Matrix Cores

—

160

Power

TDP

254 W

260 W

TDP (W)

254

260 +2.4%

Suggested PSU

600 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 2

RDNA 3.0

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 31

Codename

—

Plum Bonito

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6800)

Navi III (RX 7000)

Process Size

40 nm

5 nm

Transistors

1,700 million

57,700 million

Die Size

255 mm²

529 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.7M / mm²

109.1M / mm²

AMD MCM

GCD Transistors

—

45,400 million

GCD Die Size

—

304.35 mm²

MCD Transistors

—

2,050 million x6

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

276 mm 10.9 inches

Height

—

110 mm 4.3 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x HDMI 2.1a2x DisplayPort 2.11x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

Evergreen

Navi II

Successor

Southern Islands

Navi IV

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