AMD Radeon RX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 460

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 RX 460 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 460

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2005

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

67.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

2.150 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.150 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

134.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

NV42

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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