GeForce 6800 and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6800 vs GeForce RTX 3070

GeForce 6800

115

GeForce RTX 3070

23060

GeForce 6800

GeForce RTX 3070

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV41

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

September 2020

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Core clock speed

325 MHz

1500 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.900

317.4

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

19.2 GB/s

448.0 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

8.5

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2