GeForce 6800 and GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

NV41

GF114

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

November 2010

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Core clock speed

325 MHz

650 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

288

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.900

31.20

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

768 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

3400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

19.2 GB/s

81.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.05.1

Vulkan

N/A