NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Shading Units

48

12

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

29W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GF119

-

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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