Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon RX Vega 5 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6850
Radeon RX Vega 5
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Barts
Vega
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2010
January 2020
Bus support
AGP
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1400 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,488.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
320
Power consumption (TDP)
127 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
37.20
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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 bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
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