AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 R7 260 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV42

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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