AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2004

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/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

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

NV41

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

130 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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