AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2004

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

163.2 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

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

NV41

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

130 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

225 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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