GeForce 6700 XL and GP106B - video card comparison

GeForce 6700 XL

GP106B

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

NV43 A2

GP106B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

525 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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1280

Texture fill rate

4.200

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

17.6 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

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6.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

PureVideo HD

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VP8