Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2016 Oct 2010
Generation Mobility Radeon Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 926 MHz
Boost Clock 1074 MHz
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 224.0GB/s 128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 12
Shading Units 2048 960
TMUs 128 48
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 34.37 GPixel/s 24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 137.5 GTexel/s 37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 4.399 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 4.399 TFLOPS 1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 274.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Barts
GPU Variant Ellesmere PRO 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 85W 127W
Outputs No outputs 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