AMD Radeon R7 265 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
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Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2014
Aug 2012
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
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Boost Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
18
Shading Units
1024
1440
TMUs
64
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Cypress
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
151W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.