AMD Radeon RX 570X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 570X NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 570X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 570X

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GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2005

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/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

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

NV42

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

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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