AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +5%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

14

1440

Shading Units

896

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Bonaire

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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