NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV40 G86
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 222 million 210 million
Die size 287 mm² 127 mm²
GPU variant G86-300-A2

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 14th, 2004 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 6 AGP GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 33 in our database
Predecessor GeForce FX GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 7 AGP GeForce 9
Launch price 129 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 325 MHz 459 MHz
Memory clock 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 918 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 22.40 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5
TMUs 12 8
ROPs 12 4
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 3.900 GPixel/s 1.836 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 406.3 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.900 GTexel/s 3.672 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 29.38 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 30 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex None
Board number P201, P212 P403
Length 229 mm 9 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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