NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI Radeon X1550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 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 12.80GB/s)
ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
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-
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600 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
27W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
RV516
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
3.0
