NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/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

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

NV42

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

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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