ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Apr 2008

Release Date

Nov 2004

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

85.63 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

NV41

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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