Tonga and GeForce 6800 XE - video card comparison

Tonga

GeForce 6800 XE

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Tonga

NV40

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

September 2005

Interface

-

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

-

275 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

5,000 million

222 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

-

Texture fill rate

-

2.200

Memory type

-

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

-

256 MB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

532 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

8.512 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

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

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

N/A