NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 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 GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

NV42

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Pascal

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

110 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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