NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT 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 6800 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Nov 2005
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
NV41
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
3.0
