GeForce 6800 and Mobility Radeon X1700 - video card comparison
GeForce 6800
Mobility Radeon X1700
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
NV41
M66-P
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2004
February 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
475 MHz
Core clock speed
325 MHz
5 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
17
Texture fill rate
3.900
1.900
Memory type
DDR
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.03.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A