NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs AMD FirePro R5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Feb 2013
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
FirePro Remote
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
768
12
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Pitcairn
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
5.1
