Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5600 XT Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1560MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 254W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+367%
7188
Radeon HD 6850 X2
1536
Graphics Card
Jan 2020
Release Date
Sep 2011
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
1050 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
12
2304
Shading Units
960
144
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
99.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
224.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
14.38 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.188 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
449.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
254W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Barts
Navi 10 XLE
(215-0917338)
(215-0917338)
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
(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
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
6.5
Shader Model
5.0
