NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

Shading Units

16

12

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

-

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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