AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2011
Feb 2018
Generation
Northern Islands
Vega
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
700 MHz
Base Clock
-
931 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1011 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256bit
1024bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/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
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
32.35 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
80.88 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
2.588 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.588 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
161.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
Polaris 22
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
VegaM XL(D715A714)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
40 nm
14 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
5 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
208 mm²
Board Design
TDP
254W
65W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 8-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