AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 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 200W)

AMD Radeon RX 7700 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2600MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 +2047%

31.95 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon RX 7700

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2023

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2600 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

48

960

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

249.6 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

499.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

63.90 TFLOPS

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.95 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 32

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Navi 32

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

255 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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