NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

-

Shading Units

400

12

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Redwood

-

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

64W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

-

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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