NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 12.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
96
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
49W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
GF108
6800 XT
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
