NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
12
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
180W
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
GP104-410-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
