GeForce 6800 GT and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GT

GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

NV45

AD103

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2004

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Core clock speed

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

67 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.600

442.3

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3