
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and TU117 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
TU117
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Cypress
TU117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2012
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
725 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2,088 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
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Texture fill rate
52.20
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
+
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
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7.5
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
NVENC
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6th Gen
PureVideo HD
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VP10