Radeon RX Vega 11 vs Radeon HD 6850

Radeon RX Vega 11
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon RX Vega 11
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 11

62 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX Vega 11

HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 11

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders704vs960
Compute Units11vs12
Core clock300 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs44vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6850
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 11Radeon HD 6850
TDP65 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    20.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    55.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 11
    1760.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better