AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2004

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

NV41

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-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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