NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

2304

12

TMUs

192

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

-

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GK110

-

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

Curie

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

561 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

3.5

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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