GeForce 6800 XT vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290 Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
-
Shading Units
2560
12
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
275W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
Hawaii
6800 XT
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
(215-0852020)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.3