Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2018 Oct 2010
Generation Mobility Radeon Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1138 MHz
Boost Clock 1301 MHz
Memory Clock 800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 1024MB
Memory Type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory Bus 2048bit 256bit
Bandwidth 409.6GB/s 128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 56 12
Shading Units 3584 960
TMUs 224 48
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 4 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 83.26 GPixel/s 24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 291.4 GTexel/s 37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 18.65 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 9.326 TFLOPS 1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 582.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Vega 10 Barts
GPU Variant Vega 10 XL(215-0894216) Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture GCN 5.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 12.5 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 495 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 120W 127W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 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