ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Sep 2005
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
83 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
256MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
TMUs
12
1
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
NV42
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Rage 2
Architecture
Curie
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
N/A
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
-
Shader Model
3.0
