AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro 5000

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cypress GF100
GPU variant Cypress PRO (215-0735043) GF100-850-A3
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 2,154 million 3,100 million
Die size 334 mm² 529 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 21st, 2012 Feb 23rd, 2011
Generation Northern Islands Quadro
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 105 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen
Successor Southern Islands
Launch price 2,499 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 725 MHz 513 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 750 MHz 3 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1026 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 2.5 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 320 bit
Bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 120.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1440 352
TMUs 72 44
ROPs 32 40
Compute units 18
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 640 KB
SM count 11

Performance

Pixel rate 23.20 GPixel/s 11.29 GPixel/s
Texture rate 52.20 GTexel/s 22.57 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.088 TFLOPS 722.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 417.6 GFLOPS (1:5) 361.2 GFLOPS (1:2)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches 248 mm 9.8 inches
TDP 151 W 152 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number E174 P2007
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.0

Other Features

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