AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1815MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +649%

11.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

TU104

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

TU104-450-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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