Quadro FX 1800 and Radeon RX 6850 XT - video card comparison

Quadro FX 1800

Radeon RX 6850 XT

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G94

Navi 21

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2009

2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2250 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

Floating-point performance

176 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

59 Watt

325 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.60

648.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

768 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.3