AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +144%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2018

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

32

1440

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 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 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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