GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV40

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2004

January 2021

Interface

AGP Pro 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

400 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.400

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

35.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2