NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 18 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Nov 2005
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
-
184
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
8
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
36 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
NV41
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
130 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
3.0
