GeForce 6800 and GeForce RTX 5080 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800

GeForce RTX 5080

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Blackwell 2.0

GPU code name

NV41

GB203

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2004

2025 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

0 nm

Number of transistors

190 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.900

846.7

Memory type

DDR

GDDR7

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

19.2 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