AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Sep 2005

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

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

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

NV42

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

232 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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