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Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The Radeon HD 5850 has a GPU core speed of 725 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1440(288x5) SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6850, which features a GPU core clock speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 960 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Radeon HD 5850 151 Watts
Difference: 24 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 is a lot (about 40%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 52200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15000 (40%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 is a bit (approximately 7%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 5850, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5850 23200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1600 (7%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year September 30, 2009 October 2010
Code Name Cypress PRO Barts Pro
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 151 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52200 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23200 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1440(288x5) 960
Texture Mapping Units 72 48
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2154 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 5850

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