NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

NV42

GP104-400-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

Board Design

180W

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 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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