Radeon R9 390 X2 and GeForce 6800 Ultra - video card comparison
Radeon R9 390 X2
GeForce 6800 Ultra
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Grenada
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
July 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
4x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,120 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
-
Power consumption (TDP)
580 Watt
81 Watt
Texture fill rate
160.0
6.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5400 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
345.6 GB/s
35.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A