NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV45 GT218
Architecture Curie Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 222 million 260 million
Die size 287 mm² 57 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 8th, 2004 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 6 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCI
Reviews 115 in our database 10 in our database
Predecessor GeForce PCX GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 350 MHz 520 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1230 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 16
Vertex shaders 6
TMUs 16 8
ROPs 16 4
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 5.600 GPixel/s 2.080 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 525.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 5.600 GTexel/s 4.160 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 39.36 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 40 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number P873

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.1
CUDA 1.2

Other Features

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