AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

840 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +933%

1.488 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

3

960

Shading Units

120

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV630

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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