AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Aug 2017
Generation
Northern Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
945 MHz
Base Clock
—
1247 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1546 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
2048bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
483.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
64
Shading Units
1440
4096
TMUs
72
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
98.94 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
395.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
12.66 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
791.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
25.33 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Vega 10
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Vega 10 XT(215-0894200)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 5.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
12.5 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
495 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
295W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
7,373
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
3,619
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
129
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
92
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
57
Blender
—
660
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
95
GTA 5 2160p
—
56
GTA 5 1440p
—
107
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.