Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs GeForce 6800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Nov 2004
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.900 GTexel/s
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
185W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV41
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
