GeForce 6800 XE vs Radeon HD 7350 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1420
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameCedarNV40
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years ago)30 September 2005 (19 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed650 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors292 million222 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.2002.200
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48
TMUs88

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 8x
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz266 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s8.512 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2012 30 September 2005
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

HD 7350 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

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