AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Nov 2005

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV41

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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