ATI Radeon 9800 XXL vs HD Graphics 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking851not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.16no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT3R360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed300 MHz390 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate45.603.120
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPSno data
ROPs68
TMUs488

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).

InterfaceRing BusAGP 8x
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataFloppy

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared338 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data21.63 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent2x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 1 October 2003
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

HD Graphics 6000 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 6000 and Radeon 9800 XXL. We've got no test results to judge.


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