AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 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 112.1GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 +25%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GP107

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

132 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 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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