Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2012 | Mar 2014 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1000 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Base Clock | 827 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 933 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 128.0GB/s | 240.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 18 | 28 |
| Shading Units | 1440 | 1792 |
| TMUs | 72 | 112 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 768 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 23.20 GPixel/s | 29.86 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 52.20 GTexel/s | 104.5 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.088 TFLOPS | 3.344 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 417.6 GFLOPS | 836.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Cypress | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | Cypress PRO(215-0735043) | Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330) |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.154 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 151W | 200W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1 | 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 5.1 |