AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2005

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/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

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

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

Polaris 21

GPU Name

NV42

Polaris 21 XL

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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