AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD FirePro S10000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 +128%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

28

960

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tahiti

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Zaphod

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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