NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 19 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1330 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
3584
12
TMUs
224
8
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
56
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
-
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
220W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Navi 48
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
Curie
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
4 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
6.8
