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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6850 X2 sales 19 September 2011. This is TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 2x 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2x 134.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 254 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 15.72 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

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General info

Of Radeon HD 6850 X2's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

234

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Code name

Barts

Type

Desktop

Release date

19 September 2011

Technical specs

Radeon HD 6850 X2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6850 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2x 960

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Core clock speed

800 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

1,700 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

254 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

2x 38.4 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2x 1,536.0 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 6850 X2's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6850 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2x 2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

4200 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

2x 134.4 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6850 X2.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 6850 X2. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

15.72

Passmark

2534

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 6850 X2 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

101.21 %

NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

100.06 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

99.43 %

ATI Radeon HD 3850

98.85 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

98.22 %

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 6850 X2 from NVIDIA is GeForce GT 1030, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our rating.