NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 's Advantages

Released 19 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2005

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

32 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

NV42

GB206

GPU Variant

6800 XT

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

110 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.202 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

3.0

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