ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Sep 2005
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/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
3.600 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
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-
-
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 Molex
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV42
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
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
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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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5.0
Shader Model
3.0
