ATI Radeon 9800 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R350 NV40
GPU variant R350 PRO (215R8RBKA12F)
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 Sep 30th, 2005
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 378 MHz 275 MHz
Memory clock 297 MHz 594 Mbps effective 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 19.01 GB/s 8.512 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 1.512 GPixel/s 2.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 378.0 MVertices/s 206.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.512 GTexel/s 2.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors Floppy None
Board number 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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