NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 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
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
-
120
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
NV42
GP104-200-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
