NVIDIA GeForce G205M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G205M and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 294 vs 166
Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	294 vs 166
PassMark - G3D Mark	92 vs 59

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G205M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

294

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce G205M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE
PassMark - G2D Mark	294	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	989

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce G205M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	MCP79MX	NV40 A1
Launch date	8 January 2009	30 September 2005
Place in performance rating	1048	1051
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	222 million
Texture fill rate		2.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		8.51 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		532 MHz
Memory type		DDR2