Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Aug 2012
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders1440vs1440
Compute Units18vs18
Core clock725 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs72vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
TDP151 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs21 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better