NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 19 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

21760 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

-

680

TMUs

12

192

ROPs

8

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

88 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

Unknown

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

NV41

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

130 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.19 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

3.0

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