ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R360 NV40
GPU variant R360 (215R9RBKA11F)
Architecture Rage 9 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 117 million 222 million
Die size 218 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 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 412 MHz 275 MHz
Memory clock 365 MHz 730 Mbps effective 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 23.36 GB/s 8.512 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 3.296 GPixel/s 2.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 412.0 MVertices/s 206.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.296 GTexel/s 2.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 60 W unknown
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex None
Board number A188 P212

API Support & Features

DirectX 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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