AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +383%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Oct 2010

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/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)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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