AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition AMD · 2015-05
GPU AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 AMD · 2011-09
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2015
Sep 2011
Generation
Crystal System
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
12
Shading Units
2048
960
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.09 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
116.4 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
3.723 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
3.723 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
232.7 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Amethyst
Barts
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
254W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.