Radeon HD 6850 and FirePro W5000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6850 vs FirePro W5000
Radeon HD 6850
2030
FirePro W5000
3066
Radeon HD 6850
FirePro W5000
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Barts
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2010
August 2012
Bus support
AGP
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
-
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
1,267 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
768
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
39.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
2
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-