NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Nov 2010
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
-
Shading Units
288
12
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
748.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
62.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x Molex
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
GF104
6800 XT
GPU Variant
GF104-225-A1
Curie
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
332 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
