GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

NV41

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

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

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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