NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

12

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Curie

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

130 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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