NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

Shading Units

768

12

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

85W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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