GeForce 6800: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce 6800 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.29% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 sales 8 November 2004 at a recommended price of $39.99 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.3 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 19.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 6800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1337
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNV41
Market segmentDesktop
Release date8 November 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$39.99 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 6800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed325 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors190 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate3.900of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs12of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6800 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6800: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed300 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6800. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 6800, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 6800. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce 6800 0.29

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Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 6800 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 6800's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 6800 is Radeon HD 4200, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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