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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Graphics Card

Sep 2005
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1683 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz

Memory

256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s

Render Config

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-
-
-
SM Count
15
-
Shading Units
1920
12
TMUs
120
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV42
GPU Name
GP104
6800 XT
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Curie
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
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