ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R481 NV40
GPU variant R481 PRO
Architecture R400 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 222 million
Die size 297 mm² 287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 4th, 2005 Apr 14th, 2004
Generation Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 6 AGP
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 279 USD
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 58 in our database 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R300 GeForce FX
Successor Radeon R500 AGP GeForce 7 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 325 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 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 32.00 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12 12
Vertex shaders 6 5
TMUs 12 12
ROPs 12 12

Performance

Pixel rate 6.000 GPixel/s 3.900 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 750.0 MVertices/s 406.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 6.000 GTexel/s 3.900 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 1x Molex 1x Molex
Board number A475 P201, P212

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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