AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT 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 Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Sep 2005

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

NV42

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

6800 XT

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

3.0

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