ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
120 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Sep 2005
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
12
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
NV42
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
6800 XT
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
