GeForce 6800 XT and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 XT vs Radeon RX 590

GeForce 6800 XT

127

Radeon RX 590

9695

GeForce 6800 XT

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NV42

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

November 2018

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

222.5

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync