NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce Go 6800 Ultra sales 25 February 2005. This is a Curie architecture notebook card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 256 MB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 89 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance rating	not rated
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	NV41M
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	25 February 2005 (17 years old)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	17	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	5 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	450 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	222 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)	89 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	5.400	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce Go 6800 Ultra'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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: 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	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. 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 Ultra, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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