GeForce 6800 GT DDL and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GT DDL

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV40

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2004

October 2022

Interface

AGP Pro 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.600

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3