NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV40 NV38
GPU variant 6800 Ultra
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
Launch price 599 USD
Interface AGP Pro 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 400 MHz 475 MHz
Memory clock 550 MHz 1100 Mbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 35.20 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 6.400 GPixel/s 1.900 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 600.0 MVertices/s 356.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 6.400 GTexel/s 3.800 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 305 mm 12 inches
TDP 100 W 57 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P201

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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