NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1536

12

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Curie

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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