NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (384GB vs 256GB)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
12
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
105W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
G92
6800 XT
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
