NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

NV42

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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