Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2010 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | Sea Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1000 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 128.0GB/s | 179.2GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 12 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 960 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 48 | 80 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 24.80 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 37.20 GTexel/s | 74.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1488 GFLOPS | 2.368 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 148.0 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Barts | Curacao |
| GPU Variant | Barts PRO(215-0798006) | Curacao PRO(215-0848000) |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 1.7 billion | 2.8 billion |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 127W | 175W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 6-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 |