GeForce 6800 Ultra and Radeon 9700 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 Ultra vs Radeon 9700 PRO
GeForce 6800 Ultra
142
Radeon 9700 PRO
55
GeForce 6800 Ultra
Radeon 9700 PRO
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV45
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2004
July 2002
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Floppy
Core clock speed
425 MHz
325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
81 Watt
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Texture fill rate
6.800
2.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
620 MHz
Memory bandwidth
35.2 GB/s
19.84 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