GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce 6800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce GTX 470
3199
GeForce 6800 GT
146
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce 6800 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
June 2004
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
350 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
-
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
67 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
5.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A