NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI FireGL V8650

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI FireGL V8650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Aug 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

12

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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