GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 Ultra

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

NV45

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2004

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

425 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

81 Watt

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.800

846.7

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

35.2 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

9.1

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3