GeForce 6800 XT vs Radeon X1550 AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 6800 XT Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 5.280GB/s)
Radeon X1550 AGP Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Radeon R500 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
600 MHz
Memory Clock
330 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
5.280GB/s
Render Config
12
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
27W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
RV505
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
90 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)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
3.0