NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs ATI Radeon X1550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

12

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

27W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV516

-

Curie

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

130 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

3.0

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