NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 960 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 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 Molex

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

NV42

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

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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