GPU Comparison

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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

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

Quadro M4000

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

3,977

20,128

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

680

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

24,640

passmark_directx_10

N/A

33

passmark_directx_11

N/A

49

passmark_directx_12

N/A

26

passmark_directx_9

N/A

113

passmark_g2d

N/A

673

passmark_g3d

N/A

6,680

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,660

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6850 X2

Quadro M4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

960

1,664 +73.3%

Shaders

960

1,664 +73.3%

TMUs

48

104 +116.7%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

12

—

Clocks

GPU Clock

800 MHz

773 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz 4.2 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 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

192.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

49.47 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

80.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.536 TFLOPS

2.573 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

80.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

254 W

120 W

TDP (W)

254

120 -52.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Barts

GM204

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6800)

Quadro Maxwell (Mx000)

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,700 million

5,200 million

Die Size

255 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.7M / mm²

13.1M / 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

—

5.2

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

—

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Quadro Kepler

Successor

Southern Islands

Quadro Pascal

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