GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NV45
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2004
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
425 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
222 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
112
Power consumption (TDP)
81 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.800
33.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
35.2 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A