NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5570 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 16.00GB/s)
ATI Radeon HD 5570 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Oct 2011
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
416.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
39W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Turks
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Turks LE
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
