Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics vs GeForce Go 6800

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1345not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.43no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNV41Spectre SL
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date8 November 2004 (20 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17256
Core clock speed300 MHz626 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHz847 MHz
Number of transistors190 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate3.60010.02
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3205 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1216

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-IIIIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed550 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth35.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.5 (6.0)
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 November 2004 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 130 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 17 Watt

R5 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 9 years, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 164.7% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
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