AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM 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

Released 9 months late

1056 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +146%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF110

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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