AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD FireStream 9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (105W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +199%

1.488 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

4

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV670

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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