AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Sep 2005
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
NV42
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
6800 XT
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
