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Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

3397%
3397%

AMD Radeon HD 6850

3%
3%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is approximately 3394% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GB202
Barts
CoresDifferent
21760
960
TMUsDifferent
680
48
ROPsDifferent
176
32
Memory SizeDifferent
32 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
512 bit
256 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameDifferent
GB202
Barts
GPU VariantDifferent
GB202-300-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
ArchitectureDifferent
Blackwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process TypeDifferent
4N FinFET
N/A
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
40 nm
TransistorsDifferent
92,200 million
1,700 million
DensityDifferent
122.9M / mm²
6.7M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
750 mm²
255 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
N/A
HFCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Release DateDifferent
Jan 30th, 2025
Oct 21st, 2010
AnnouncedDifferent
Jan 6th, 2025
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 50
Northern Islands(HD 6800)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 40
Evergreen
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
1,999 USD
179 USD
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
43 in our database
105 in our database
SuccessorDifferent
N/A
Southern Islands

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Base ClockDifferent
2017 MHz
N/A
Boost ClockDifferent
2407 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
1750 MHz28 Gbps effective
1000 MHz4 Gbps effective
GPU ClockDifferent
N/A
775 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Memory SizeDifferent
32 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
512 bit
256 bit
BandwidthDifferent
1.79 TB/s
128.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Shading UnitsDifferent
21760
960
TMUsDifferent
680
48
ROPsDifferent
176
32
SM CountDifferent
170
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
680
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
170
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
96 MB
512 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
12

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Pixel RateDifferent
423.6 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
1,636.8 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
104.8 TFLOPS
1,488.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)
N/A

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
304 mm12 inches
198 mm7.8 inches
HeightDifferent
137 mm5.4 inches
N/A
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
N/A
TDPDifferent
575 W
127 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
950 W
300 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 16-pin
1x 6-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG145 SKU 30
109-C22301-00B

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090AMD Radeon HD 6850
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGLDifferent
4.6
4.4
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
1.2
VulkanDifferent
1.4
N/A
CUDADifferent
12.0
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
5.0

Comparison Summary

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