NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI FirePro V8700

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI FirePro V8700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FirePro V8700

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

Shading Units

800

12

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV770

-

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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