GeForce 6800 XE vs Radeon PRO WX 3100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	560	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	5.31	no data
Power efficiency	7.02	no data
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Lexa	NV40
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	12 June 2017 (7 years ago)	30 September 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	925 MHz	275 MHz
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,200 million	222 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	39.01	2.200
Floating-point processing power	1.248 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	266 MHz
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	8.512 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors

1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.4	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 June 2017	30 September 2005
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	130 nm

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