AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

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GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

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

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

NV41

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

Unknown

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-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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