GeForce 6800 Ultra vs RTX 3060 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	48	not rated
Place by popularity	21	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	70.84	no data
Power efficiency	19.51	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	GA104	NV45
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 December 2020 (3 years ago)	26 July 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4864	no data
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	425 MHz
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	17,400 million	222 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	81 Watt
Texture fill rate	253.1	6.800
Floating-point processing power	16.2 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	80	16
TMUs	152	16
Tensor Cores	152	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	38	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	242 mm	197 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	550 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	35.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.5	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 December 2020	26 July 2004
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	81 Watt

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