NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

7232 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 12Q +1766%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

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Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 2010

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

64

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

8192

Shading Units

960

256

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Barts

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GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

127W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x 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 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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