AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Nov 2004
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.900 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV41
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
130 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
