NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 17.02GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
12
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
G94
6800 XT
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
240 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
