NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

Shading Units

1024

12

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

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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