NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
12
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
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
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
NV42
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
398 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
