Tahiti and GeForce 6800 - video card comparison

Tahiti

GeForce 6800

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

NV41

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

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November 2004

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

-

325 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

190 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

-

Texture fill rate

-

3.900

Memory type

-

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

-

256 MB

Memory bus width

-

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

600 MBps

Memory bandwidth

-

19.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0 (full) Shader Model6.5 (5.1)3.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

N/A