GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
12
24
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
NV42
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Fermi
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
222 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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
