Radeon HD 6850 X2 and Radeon HD 5970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs Radeon HD 5970
Radeon HD 6850 X2
2610
Radeon HD 5970
2350
Radeon HD 6850 X2
Radeon HD 5970
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Barts
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2011
November 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
800 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 1,536.0 gflops
2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
254 Watt
294 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4200 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A