GeForce 6800 GS and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

NV41

GP104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2005

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1733 MHz

Core clock speed

425 MHz

1607 MHz

Floating-point performance

8,873 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

7,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

180 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.100

277.3

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5X

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MBps

11008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

352.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131