AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GRID M60 1Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2011
Aug 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
GRID
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
—
557 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
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Shading Units
960
2048
TMUs
48
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
75.39 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
150.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
4.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
150.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GM204
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
254W
225W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.