AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2011
Aug 2025
Generation
Northern Islands
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1125 MHz
Base Clock
—
982 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1957 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
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Shading Units
960
4352
TMUs
48
136
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
32 MB
SM Count
—
34
Tensor Cores
—
136
RT Cores
—
34
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
125.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
266.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
17.03 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
17.03 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
266.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GB206
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
254W
70W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.