AMD Radeon Vega 9 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 9 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 9

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 9

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 67 Watt
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 409 vs 212
11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1591 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 14 April 2004
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 67 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	409 vs 212
PassMark - G3D Mark	1591 vs 142

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 9
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

409

212

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1591

142

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 9	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G2D Mark	409	212
PassMark - G3D Mark	1591	142
Geekbench - OpenCL	9706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2591
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1856
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2482
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2482

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 9	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Curie
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	NV40 A1
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	811	809
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	576
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	4500 million	222 million
Core clock speed		350 MHz
Texture fill rate		5.6 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Shared memory	Yes
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
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