Radeon RX 580 and GeForce 6800 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce 6800 Ultra
Radeon RX 580
9140
GeForce 6800 Ultra
142
Radeon RX 580
GeForce 6800 Ultra
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
July 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
-
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
81 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
6.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
35.2 GB/s
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