NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 6.1x more texture fill rate: 34.0 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 256 MB
  • 2.4x more memory clock speed: 1674 MHz (3348 data rate) vs 700 MHz
  • 21.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3107 vs 142
  • Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 405 vs 212
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 March 2010 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 34.0 billion / sec vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 1280 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1674 MHz (3348 data rate) vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3107 vs 142
PassMark - G2D Mark 405 vs 212

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 67 Watt vs 215 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 67 Watt vs 215 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3107
142
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
405
212
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 3107 142
PassMark - G2D Mark 405 212
Geekbench - OpenCL 10940
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 27.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 980.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 47.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 97.852
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3317
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Curie
Code name GF100 NV40 A1
Launch date 26 March 2010 14 April 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 809 807
Price now $522.01
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 6.87

Technical info

Core clock speed 1215 MHz 350 MHz
CUDA cores 448
Floating-point performance 1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Pipelines 448
Texture fill rate 34.0 billion / sec 5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt 67 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 222 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pins 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1280 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 133.9 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1674 MHz (3348 data rate) 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround