AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Jun 2025
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
2500 MHz
Base Clock
-
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2572 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
-
Shading Units
1440
2560
TMUs
72
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
24 MB
SM Count
-
20
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GB207
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
Unknown
Board Design
TDP
151W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
6.8
CUDA
-
12.0