GeForce 6800 GT and GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand - video card comparison
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NV45
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2004
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
350 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
128
Power consumption (TDP)
67 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.600
46.40
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A