NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2015
Oct 2010
Generation
GRID
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
960
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Barts
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
127W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.