AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD Radeon HD 6930

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 8 months late

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (151W vs 186W)

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +8%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6930

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2011

Northern Islands

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

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

20

1440

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

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

24.00 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Cayman

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

186W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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