NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon R7 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon R7 250

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

12

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

716.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

44.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

123 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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