Radeon RX 470 and GeForce 6800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce 6800 GT
Radeon RX 470
8339
GeForce 6800 GT
146
Radeon RX 470
GeForce 6800 GT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
June 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
-
Core clock speed
926 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
-
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
67 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
5.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x 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
6.4
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
FreeSync
+
-