GeForce 6800 and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison

GeForce 6800

Radeon R7 Graphics

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

NV41

Spectre

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

980 MHz

Core clock speed

325 MHz

686 MHz

Floating-point performance

526.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

2,410 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.900

31.36

Memory type

DDR

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

19.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.0

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131