AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC 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

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 127W)

Score

Radeon HD 6850

VS

Radeon X1700 FSC

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

695 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.24GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV535

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

RV535 FSC

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

131 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

44W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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