AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2005

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

NV42

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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