NVIDIA GeForce 6800: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 sales 14 April 2004 at a recommended price of $39.99 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. 1x Molex power connector is required.

We have no data on GeForce 6800 benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameNV40
Market segmentDesktop
Release date14 April 2004 (19 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$39.99
Current price$250 (6.3x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors222 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology130 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate3.900of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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).

InterfaceAGP 8x
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex

Memory

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 amount128 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed700 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 support

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

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


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Recommended processors

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