GeForce 6800 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 6800
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
NV41
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2004
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
325 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1024
Texture fill rate
3.900
76.86
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.06.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126