AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2005

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

-

256

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

NV42

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

6800 XT

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Curie

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

110 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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