NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

NV42

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

222 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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