AMD Radeon R9 390 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2015
Aug 2012
Generation
Pirate Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
40
18
Shading Units
2560
1440
TMUs
160
72
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
640.0 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Grenada
Cypress
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO(215-0880030)
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
275W
151W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.3
5.0

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