NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1024

12

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.7

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