Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2018 Oct 2010
Generation Polaris Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1090 MHz
Boost Clock 1175 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14 12
Shading Units 896 960
TMUs 56 48
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 18.80 GPixel/s 24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 65.80 GTexel/s 37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.106 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.106 TFLOPS 1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 131.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Polaris 21 Barts
GPU Variant Polaris 21 XL Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 123 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 65W 127W
Suggested PSU 250 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
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