Radeon HD 6850 and FirePro S7150 x2 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6850

FirePro S7150 x2

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

Barts

Tonga

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 2010

February 2016

Bus support

AGP

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

-

920 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,488.0 gflops

2x 3,763 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

127 Watt

265 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.20

103.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

-

1.2.170

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-