NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
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600 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1600
12
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Cypress
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
334 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
