GeForce 6800 GT DDL vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking720not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.31no data
Power efficiency1.64no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameRV770NV40
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)14 April 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 $499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores800no data
Core clock speed750 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors956 million222 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate30.005.600
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1616
TMUs4016

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP Pro 8x
Length250 mm305 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s32 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 14 April 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 80 Watt

ATI HD 4870 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

6800 GT DDL, on the other hand, has 87.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce 6800 GT DDL. We've got no test results to judge.


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