Radeon RX 580 and GeForce 6800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce 6800 XT
Radeon RX 580
9140
GeForce 6800 XT
127
Radeon RX 580
GeForce 6800 XT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
NV42
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
September 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x Molex
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
202 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
-
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
193.0
5.400
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1200 MBps
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0 (full)
Shader Model6.43.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A