AMD Wii U GPU vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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AMD Wii U GPU AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared a Game console GPU: 2GB VRAM Wii U GPU and a Desktop platform GPU: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Wii U GPU 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Wii U GPU

0.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +1086%

2.088 TFLOPS

Wii U GPU

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Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Aug 2012

Console GPU

Generation

Northern Islands

Game console

Type

Desktop

-

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

18

160

Shading Units

1440

16

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

176.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Latte

GPU Name

Cypress

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GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Renesas

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.88 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

151W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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