ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580+ NV40
GPU variant R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 222 million
Die size 352 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 10th, 2006 Jul 21st, 2004
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 6 AGP
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Reviews 144 in our database 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce FX
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 7 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR4 DDR
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 48 8
Vertex shaders 8 4
TMUs 16 8
ROPs 16 8

Performance

Pixel rate 10.40 GPixel/s 2.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.300 GVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 10.40 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VHDCI 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x Molex
Board number A988 P212

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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