NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV40 NV38
GPU variant 6800 GT
Architecture Curie Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 222 million 135 million
Die size 287 mm² 207 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 14th, 2004 Feb 17th, 2004
Generation GeForce 6 AGP GeForce PCX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 1 in our database
Predecessor GeForce FX GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 7 AGP GeForce 6 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 350 MHz 475 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 27.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 16 4
Vertex shaders 6 3
TMUs 16 8
ROPs 16 4

Performance

Pixel rate 5.600 GPixel/s 1.900 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 525.0 MVertices/s 356.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 5.600 GTexel/s 3.800 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
TDP unknown 57 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex None
Board number P201, P212

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.1 2.0
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a

Other Features

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