ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (127W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +40%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Oct 2010

Evergreen

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

12

1440

Shading Units

960

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Barts

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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