NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

NV42

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

470 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

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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