NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon RX 580X

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

Shading Units

2304

12

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

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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