NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

12

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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