GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and GeForce Go 6800 Ultra - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GN20-E5 GA104

NV41M

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

January 2021

February 2005

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1290 MHz

450 MHz

Core clock speed

5 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

89 Watt

Texture fill rate

237.4

5.400

Memory type

GDDR6

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

1200 MBps

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5

3.0

Vulkan

1.2

N/A