Caicos and GeForce 6800 XT - video card comparison

Caicos

GeForce 6800 XT

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Caicos

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

Interface

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

202 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Texture fill rate

5.400

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.0 (full) Shader Model5.03.0

Vulkan

N/A