NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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

Released 2 years and 9 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

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 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

GT200

GPU Name

NV42

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

576 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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