NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 580

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

244W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

NV41

GF110-375-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

520 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

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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