AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +292%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

36

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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