GeForce 6800 XT and Radeon RX 5800 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 XT

Radeon RX 5800 XT

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV42

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1775 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3328

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

369.2

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.0-

Vulkan

N/A