NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

NV41

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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