NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

2816

12

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Curie

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

8 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

601 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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