GeForce 6800 GS and Radeon R2 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GS

Radeon R2 Graphics

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

NV41

Beema

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2005

February 2015

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

425 MHz

351 MHz

Floating-point performance

179.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

930 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.100

2.808

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1000 MBps

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.3

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131