GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV40

GN20-E7 GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2004

January 2021

Interface

AGP Pro 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1245 - 1710 MHz

Core clock speed

400 MHz

780 - 1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

6.400

296.6

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

35.2 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

No outputs

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