GeForce 6800 Ultra and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 Ultra vs Radeon 9600
GeForce 6800 Ultra
142
Radeon 9600
36
GeForce 6800 Ultra
Radeon 9600
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV45
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2004
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
425 MHz
324 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
81 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.800
1.296
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
35.2 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A