GeForce 6800 XT and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 XT

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

NV42

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

March 2018

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

None

Boost clock speed

1379 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

1152 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,059 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

33.10

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

2100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

16.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131