NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI FirePro V9800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1600

12

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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