AMD Radeon Vega 10 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 10 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 10

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 10

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 6 month(s) later
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 700 MHz
11x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1567 vs 142
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 369 vs 212

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 October 2017 vs 14 April 2004
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1567 vs 142
PassMark - G2D Mark	369 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 10
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1567

142

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

369

212

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1567	142
PassMark - G2D Mark	369	212
Geekbench - OpenCL	9383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.526
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	357.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	155.274
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3235
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	797

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Curie
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	NV40 A1
Launch date	26 October 2017	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	943	809
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed		350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology		130 nm
Texture fill rate		5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		67 Watt
Transistor count		222 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex