AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

NV41

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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