GeForce 6800 GTO and Radeon 550 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GTO

Radeon 550

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

NV45

Lexa

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2004

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1183 MHz

Core clock speed

350 MHz

1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.200

37.86

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

7 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

56 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3