GeForce 6800 and Xbox 360 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 6800

Xbox 360 GPU

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

NV41

Xenos

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

November 2005

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

325 MHz

500 MHz

Floating-point performance

240 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

232 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

Texture fill rate

3.900

8.000

Memory type

DDR

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

19.2 GB/s

22.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.0-

Vulkan

N/A