AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Sep 2005

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/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

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-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

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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