NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon HD 6390

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon HD 6390

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6390 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6390 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 6390

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

12

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Redwood

-

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

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

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

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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