
Radeon VE and GeForce 6800 XE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon VE vs GeForce 6800 XE
Radeon VE
2
GeForce 6800 XE
60
Radeon VE
GeForce 6800 XE
Architecture
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Rage 6
NV40
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2001
September 2005
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
183 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
180 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
30 million
222 million
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
0.55
2.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
366 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
2.928 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
7.0
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.3
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A