NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 6800 XE provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.13% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 XE sales 30 September 2005. This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.27 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.512 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 6800 XE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1477 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV40 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 30 September 2005 (19 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 6800 XE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6800 XE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 275 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 222 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.200 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6800 XE 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).
| Interface | AGP 8x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6800 XE: 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 type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 266 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 8.512 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6800 XE. 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 6800 XE, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 6800 XE. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 6800 XE is Radeon X1300, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 6800 XE:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 6800 XE according to our statistics.
