AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 6800

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
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Value for money (0-100)
3.21
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Curie
Cayman
Code name
NV40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
14 April 2004 (17 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$39.99
$17.44
Price now
$130 (3.3x MSRP)
Cayman
GPU code name
NV40
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
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Core clock speed
325 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
222 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
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Texture fill rate
3.900
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
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2,640 million
Number of transistors
222 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800.

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Interface
AGP 8x
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Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR
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Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
700 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800, the size and number of monitors.

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

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $130 (3.3x MSRP))

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 130 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 6800

0.5% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce 6800?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 6800 .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce 6800 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cayman
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 6800