NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
8 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
-
8
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
12
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
14.69 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
NV42
-
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
