GeForce 6800 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 vs GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce 6800

115

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

GeForce 6800

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV41

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

325 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.900

199.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

19.2 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