AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD FirePro W4000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +17%

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

12

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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