NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 732 MHz vs 350 MHz
7.8x more texture fill rate: 43.92 GTexel / s 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
5.4x more memory clock speed: 3800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	7 December 2010 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	732 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.92 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 67 Watt vs 219 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	67 Watt vs 219 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	36.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	674.215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.967
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	36.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	123.354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5405
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
PassMark - G3D Mark		142
PassMark - G2D Mark		212

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Rev. 2	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF110	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 December 2010	14 April 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$349
Place in performance rating	807	808
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	732 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,405 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	43.92 GTexel / s	5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	219 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3