NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

12

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

NV41

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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