GeForce 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 XT

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

NV42

GN21-X11

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2005

January 2023

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

Boost clock speed

2040 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

9728

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

5.400

515.3

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

20000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3