AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 SDI
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jul 2013
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
288.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
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Shading Units
960
2880
TMUs
48
240
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
54.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
216.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
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1.732 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GK110
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
7.08 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
561 mm²
Board Design
TDP
127W
239W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
3x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.23x SDI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
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3.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.