AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4.3x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 81 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 222 vs 153
Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 163 vs 139

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2013 vs 26 July 2004
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 81 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	222 vs 153
PassMark - G3D Mark	163 vs 139

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

222

153

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

163

139

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark	222	153
PassMark - G3D Mark	163	139
Geekbench - OpenCL	2883

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8350 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cedar	NV40 A1
Launch date	8 January 2013	26 July 2004
Place in performance rating	1067	1070
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	81 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm	197 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3