AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Sep 2005

Navi

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

-

88

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

NV42

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

110 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

3.0

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