GeForce 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 XT

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

NV42

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

2025 (recently)

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

202 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.400

846.7

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

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

9.1

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3