NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI Radeon HD 3830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.50GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 3830

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

26.50GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

12

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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