NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 532 MHz

Launch date	2 April 2012 vs 30 September 2005
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 532 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark		123
PassMark - G2D Mark		122

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF119	NV48
Launch date	2 April 2012	30 September 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	1278
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	48
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.67 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz	532 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3