AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs Intel Arc A580
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Oct 2023
Generation
Northern Islands
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
960
3072
TMUs
48
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
Tensor Cores
-
384
RT Cores
-
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.80 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.20 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1488 GFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
24.58 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
DG2-512
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
ACM-G10
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Generation 12.7
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
21.7 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
406 mm²
Board Design
TDP
127W
175W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 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
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6