NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 350 MHz
8x more texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 700 MHz
18.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2580 vs 142
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 212

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2580 vs 142
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 212

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Around 12% lower typical power consumption: 67 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	67 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2580

142

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

212

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	2580	142
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	212
Geekbench - OpenCL	9741
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Curie
Code name	GM107	NV40 A1
Launch date	13 March 2015	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	814	811
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	350 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s	5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI