NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/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

3.600 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 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 Molex

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

NV42

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

110 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

222 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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