NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Shading Units

512

12

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

244W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GF110

-

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Curie

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

3 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

520 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

2.0

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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