Radeon RX Vega 11 vs 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX Vega 11
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX Vega 11 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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GPU Name | Raven Ridge () | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 210 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
Transistors | 4,940 million | vs | 1,700 million |
Shaders | 704 | vs | 960 |
Compute Units | 11 | vs | 12 |
Core clock | 300 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 44 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX Vega 11 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX Vega 11 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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TDP | 65 watts | vs | 127 watts |
Release Date | 13 Feb 2018 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
Radeon RX Vega 11
20.00 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX Vega 11
55.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX Vega 11
0.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX Vega 11
1760.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better