GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce 6800 GT DDL - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce 6800 GT DDL

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

NV40

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

April 2004

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

AGP Pro 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

Core clock speed

1450 MHz

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8704

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

465.1

5.600

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

320 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

19000 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

32 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

2x DVI

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5

3.0

Vulkan

1.2

N/A