GeForce 6800 and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 vs Radeon 9600
GeForce 6800
115
Radeon 9600
36
GeForce 6800
Radeon 9600
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV41
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2004
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
325 MHz
324 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.900
1.296
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.0-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A