NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Oct 2010
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1170 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
64
-
Shading Units
8192
960
TMUs
256
48
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
-
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Barts
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
255 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Board Design
TDP
230W
127W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 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