Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2019 Oct 2010
Generation Radeon Pro Mac Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz
Memory Clock 1710 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 218.9GB/s 128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 12
Shading Units 2304 960
TMUs 144 48
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 38.40 GPixel/s 24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 172.8 GTexel/s 37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.530 TFLOPS 1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 345.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Barts
GPU Variant Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 127W
Outputs 2x HDMI 2.0b 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.4 5.0