NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1664

12

TMUs

104

8

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

398 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

6.4

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