AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 23629.6x more texture fill rate: 127.6 GTexel/s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 532 MHz
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 532 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943
Geekbench - OpenCL 45724
PassMark - G3D Mark 123
PassMark - G2D Mark 122

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Curie
Code name Navi 14 NV48
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 30 September 2005
Place in performance rating 399 1247
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1450 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 110 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408
Pixel fill rate 46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 532 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3