GeForce 6800 GS and Radeon HD 8860 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

NV41

Curacao

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2005

January 2013

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

425 MHz

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,368 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.100

74.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MBps

5600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

179.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.05.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131