NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV40 G96C
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 222 million 314 million
Die size 287 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 8th, 2005 May 19th, 2010
Generation GeForce 6 AGP GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce FX GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 7 AGP GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 350 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1400 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.200 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 437.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 4.200 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 89.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 50 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex None
Board number P201
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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