ATI FirePro V7900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

ATI FirePro V7900

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

FirePro V7900

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Nov 2005

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

1.856 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV41

Cayman PRO GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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