GeForce 9800M GT SLI and GeForce 6800 GT - video card comparison

GeForce 9800M GT SLI

GeForce 6800 GT

Architecture

G9x (2007−2010)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

NB9E-GT2

NV45

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

June 2004

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

500 MHz

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

1508 Million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

-

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

67 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

5.600

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

32 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

10

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

N/A

OpenGL

-

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A