Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Sep 2011
Generation
Data Center GPU
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
960
TMUs
256
48
ROPs
128
32
L2 Cache
8 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
12
L1 Cache
—
8 KB (per CU)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Barts
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
40 nm
Transistors
8 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
255 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Board Design
TDP
500W
254W
Suggested PSU
900 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.