NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2021
Aug 2012
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
562 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
26
-
Shading Units
3328
1440
TMUs
104
72
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
104
-
RT Cores
26
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
18

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
Cypress
GPU Variant
GA106-850-A1
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
70W
151W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.0