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Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The Radeon HD 6850 has core clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which features a core clock speed of 1168 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 570 12108 points
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 9713 (406%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Radeon RX 570 150 Watts
Difference: 23 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon HD 6850 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 229376 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 101376 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be much (more or less 302%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 149504 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 112304 (302%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be quite a bit (approximately 51%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6850, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 570 37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12576 (51%)

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 6850 Radeon RX 570
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2010 April 2017
Code Name Barts Pro Polaris 20
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 775 MHz 1168 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 127 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37200 Mtexels/sec 149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24800 Mpixels/sec 37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 2048
Texture Mapping Units 48 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1700 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon RX 570”
dafunk_lull says:

rx570's configured with the 8 pin power connector Can run if a 6 pin is used instead. no where does it say this anywhere. you just cannot over clock it. infact down clocking it 5% to stay safe. and no stress testing other wise it works.

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