NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
159W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
R600
6800 XT
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
