
GeForce 6800 XT and Radeon HD 5630 - video card comparison
GeForce 6800 XT
Radeon HD 5630
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NV42
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2005
February 2011
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
202 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.400
10.40
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MBps
780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
12.48 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.05.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A