NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

120 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

-

Shading Units

120

12

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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