Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GRID M60 8Q
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2010 | Aug 2015 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | GRID |
| Type | Desktop | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1000 MHz | 1253 MHz |
| Base Clock | 557 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 128.0GB/s | 160.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 12 | |
| Shading Units | 960 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 48 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 24.80 GPixel/s | 75.39 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 37.20 GTexel/s | 150.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1488 GFLOPS | 4.825 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 150.8 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Barts | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | Barts PRO(215-0798006) | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 1.7 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 255 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 127W | 225W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.4 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |