NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs AMD FirePro W600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
512
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
768.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
48.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Cape Verde
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO GL
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
123 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
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
