NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Sep 2005
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
8
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV42
-
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Ampere
Architecture
Curie
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
110 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.202 billion
Unknown
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
3.0
