NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 17.02GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Shading Units

64

12

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

G94

-

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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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