GeForce 6800 XT vs GeForce GT 230 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 6800 XT Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
GeForce GT 230 OEM Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 256GB)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Apr 2009
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
600 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
12
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
12
-
L2 Cache
48 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
G92B
6800 XT
GPU Variant
G92-159-B1
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
