ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

40 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

Score

Radeon HD 3470

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Sep 2005

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

15.20GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

40

Shading Units

-

4

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

64.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

NV42

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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