NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
NV42
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
