Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 6800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Nov 2004
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
-
144
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.900 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
NV41
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Curie
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
130 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
3.0