AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 340 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 27.20GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +478%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

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GeForce GT 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Feb 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

27.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GT215

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GT215-301-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

69W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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