Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Sep 2005
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/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
3.600 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 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
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
NV42
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
6800 XT
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Curie
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
110 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
222 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
