GeForce 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

GeForce 6800 XT

127

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

27475

GeForce 6800 XT

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV42

Ampere GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

January 2022

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1260 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8960

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

478.8

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

1710 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3