NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2105MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

-

Shading Units

3840

12

TMUs

240

8

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

-

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Navi 21

-

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Curie

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.5

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