NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 7.920GB/s)
ATI Radeon HD 2400 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
40 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
495 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
7.920GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
40
12
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.592 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.592 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
31.84 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
20W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
RV610
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.18 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
85 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
