ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum vs NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R423 NV43
GPU variant R423 XT (215RBJAGA12F)
Architecture R400 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 146 million
Die size 289 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 1st, 2004 Nov 14th, 2004
Generation Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 226 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R300 GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 520 MHz 525 MHz
Memory clock 560 MHz 1120 Mbps effective 550 MHz 1100 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 35.84 GB/s 17.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 16 8
Vertex shaders 6 3
TMUs 16 8
ROPs 16 4

Performance

Pixel rate 8.320 GPixel/s 2.100 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 780.0 MVertices/s 393.8 MVertices/s
Texture rate 8.320 GTexel/s 4.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 63 W unknown
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P216

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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