AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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AMD Radeon Pro V520 AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +380%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Sep 2011

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

254W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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