AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2310MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2022
Release Date
Nov 2005
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1860 MHz
Base Clock
-
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
576.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
80
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
5120
Shading Units
-
320
TMUs
12
128
ROPs
8
-
-
-
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
-
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
295.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
739.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
47.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.65 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
1478 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
335W
TDP
Unknown
700 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
NV41
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
130 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
3.0
