AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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Products
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 AMD · 2011-07
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6850 AMD · 2010-10
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2011
Oct 2010
Generation
Northern Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
12
Shading Units
1120
960
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
Barts
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
127W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.