AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2004

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

NV41

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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