GeForce 6800 GT and Mobility Radeon X1600 - video card comparison
GeForce 6800 GT
Mobility Radeon X1600
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
NV45
M56
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2004
February 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
450 MHz
Core clock speed
350 MHz
5 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
17
Power consumption (TDP)
67 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.600
1.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
940 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
15.04 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A