ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2005

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV41

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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