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AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2010 Nov 2015
Generation Northern Islands Tesla Maxwell
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1000 MHz 1502 MHz
Base Clock 948 MHz
Boost Clock 1112 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 24GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 128.0GB/s 288.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12
Shading Units 960 3072
TMUs 48 192
ROPs 32 96
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 24.80 GPixel/s 106.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 37.20 GTexel/s 213.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1488 GFLOPS 6.832 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 213.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts GM200
GPU Variant Barts PRO(215-0798006) GM200-895-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 8 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 601 mm²
Board Design
TDP 127W 250W
Suggested PSU 300 W 600 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 8-pin EPS
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 6.7
CUDA 5.2