NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual 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 22.08GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
22.08GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.360 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.360 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
RV530
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
150 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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-
-
3.0
Shader Model
3.0
