NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

10496 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 3090

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

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

-

328

TMUs

12

112

ROPs

8

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

Unknown

750 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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

NV41

GA102-300-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

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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