ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV530 NV40
GPU variant RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 157 million 222 million
Die size 150 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2007 Apr 14th, 2004
Generation Radeon R500 AGP GeForce 6 AGP
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 64 in our database 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce FX
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 7 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 325 MHz
Memory clock 390 MHz 780 Mbps effective 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.48 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12 12
Vertex shaders 5 5
TMUs 4 12
ROPs 4 12

Performance

Pixel rate 2.000 GPixel/s 3.900 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 625.0 MVertices/s 406.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.000 GTexel/s 3.900 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 41 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors Floppy 1x Molex
Board number P201, P212

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 3.0

Other Features

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