AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20m
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jan 2013
Generation
Northern Islands
Tesla
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
5GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
320bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
208.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
960
2496
TMUs
48
208
ROPs
32
40
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1280 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
36.71 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
146.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
3.524 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
1175 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GK110
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
7.08 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
561 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
-
3.5