Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2018 | Sep 2011 |
| Generation | Polaris | Northern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1469 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1545 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 256.0GB/s | 134.4GB/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 | 49.44 GPixel/s | 25.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 222.5 GTexel/s | 38.40 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 7.119 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 7.119 TFLOPS | 1.536 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 445.0 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Polaris 30 | Barts |
| GPU Variant | Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006) | Barts PRO(215-0798006) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 12 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 5.7 billion | 1.7 billion |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 255 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 175W | 254W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 2x 8-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 |