Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2011 Apr 2018
Generation Northern Islands Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 1168 MHz
Boost Clock 1244 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 12 32
Shading Units 960 2048
TMUs 48 128
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 25.60 GPixel/s 39.81 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 38.40 GTexel/s 159.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.536 TFLOPS 5.095 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.095 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 318.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts Polaris 20
GPU Variant Barts PRO(215-0798006) Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 254W 150W
Suggested PSU 600 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 6.4