GeForce 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce 6800 XT

127

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

GeForce 6800 XT

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV42

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

January 2021

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2