NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

Shading Units

1024

12

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Polaris 21

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

130 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

3 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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