NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

-

272

TMUs

12

96

ROPs

8

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

NV41

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

130 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

Unknown

700 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 6-pin

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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