AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cedar NV40
GPU variant Cedar LE
Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 292 million 222 million
Die size 59 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 4th, 2011 Dec 8th, 2005
Generation Northern Islands GeForce 6 AGP
Predecessor Evergreen GeForce FX
Successor Southern Islands GeForce 7 AGP
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Reviews 115 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 350 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 80
TMUs 8 12
ROPs 4 12
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB
Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5

Performance

Pixel rate 2.600 GPixel/s 4.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 5.200 GTexel/s 4.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 104.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 437.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 19 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x Molex
Board number P201

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 4.4 2.1
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 3.0

Other Features

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