GeForce Go 6800: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce Go 6800 sales 25 February 2005. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 256 MB of 128 / 256 memory clocked at 1.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 / 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 35.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-III interface. Power consumption is at 45 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce Go 6800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV42M | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 25 February 2005 (19 years ago) | |
| Current price | $218 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce Go 6800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce Go 6800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 17 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 5 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 300 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 222 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.600 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce Go 6800's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | MXM-III | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce Go 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 type | 128 / 256 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 / 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1100 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 35.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce Go 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce Go 6800, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce Go 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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