ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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ATI Radeon HD 5850 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 5850 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 5850

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Sep 2005

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

-

72

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV42

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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