Quadro FX 3800 vs Radeon HD 6930

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 3800 and Radeon HD 6930, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro FX 3800 stacks up against Radeon HD 6930, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 3800 Radeon HD 6930
Power consumption (TDP) 108 Watt 186 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6930 has 72% more power consumption, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro FX 3800 and Radeon HD 6930 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 3800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6930 - with TeraScale 3.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6930 is 150 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Quadro FX 3800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6930 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6930 is 22 mm longer, than Quadro FX 3800.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6930 is 3200 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 3800.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 9−10
ultra / 1080p 0−1 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 10−11 21−24
medium / 1080p 1−2 10−12
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6930 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 166% more, than Quadro FX 3800.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 3800 Radeon HD 6930
Architecture Tesla 2.0 TeraScale 3
Code name GT200B Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 30 March 2009 1 December 2011
Pipelines 192 1280
Core clock speed 600 MHz 750 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 38.40 60.00
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops 1,920.0 gflops
Length 198 mm 220 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.0 5.0
OpenGL 3.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3
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