ATI Radeon X1950 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV570 NV40
GPU variant RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 222 million
Die size 230 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 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 575 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 Mbps effective 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 44.16 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36 8
Vertex shaders 8 4
TMUs 12 8
ROPs 12 8

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 2.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 228 mm 9 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 66 W unknown
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x Molex
Board number A999-31 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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