AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2018
Oct 2010
Generation
Polaris
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1168 MHz
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Boost Clock
1284 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
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
41.09 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
164.4 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.259 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
5.259 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
328.7 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 20
Barts
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
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
150W
127W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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

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