NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 15 years late

Boost Clock1725MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

-

184

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

8

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

NV42

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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