NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

NV41

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 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 + 1x 8-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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