Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2012 Apr 2021
Generation Northern Islands Quadro Ampere
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1170 MHz
Boost Clock 1695 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 18
Shading Units 1440 8192
TMUs 72 256
ROPs 32 96
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 6 MB
SM Count 64
Tensor Cores 256
RT Cores 64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.20 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 52.20 GTexel/s 433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.088 TFLOPS 27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 417.6 GFLOPS 433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress GA102
GPU Variant Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture TeraScale 2 Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 40 nm 8 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 28.3 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 628 mm²
Board Design
TDP 151W 230W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1 4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 6.7
CUDA 8.6