ATI Radeon 9800 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R350 NV40
GPU variant R350 PRO (215R8RBKA12F) 6800 GT
Architecture Rage 8 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 117 million 222 million
Die size 215 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 1st, 2003 Apr 14th, 2004
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce 6 AGP
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 20 in our database 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce FX
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 7 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 380 MHz 350 MHz
Memory clock 340 MHz 680 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 21.76 GB/s 16.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 3.040 GPixel/s 5.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 380.0 MVertices/s 525.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.040 GTexel/s 5.600 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 47 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex 1x Molex
Board number A075 P201, P212

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.0 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0
Vertex shader 2.0
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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