AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 254W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon X1700 FSC

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Nov 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

695 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.24GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV535

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

RV535 FSC

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

131 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

44W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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