Caicos and GeForce 6800 Ultra - video card comparison

Caicos

GeForce 6800 Ultra

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Caicos

NV45

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2004

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

425 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Power consumption (TDP)

81 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.800

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

35.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A