NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 GTX 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

NV42

-

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

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

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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