NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 6800 GT is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 130 nm process and based on the NV45 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

NV45

Model number

6800 GT

Architecture

Curie

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

130 nm

Transistors

222 million

Die Size

287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jun 8th, 2004

Family

GeForce 6 PCIe
(6800)

Production

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce PCX

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

256 MB

Memory Type

GDDR3

Memory Bus

256 bit

Bandwidth

32.00 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

5.600 GPixel/s

Vertex fillrate

525.0 MVertices/s

Texture fillrate

5.600 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

500 MHz
1000 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

350 MHz

Render Config

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

Pixel Shaders

16

Vertex Shaders

6

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Thermal design power (TDP)

67 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

Display Connectors

2x DVI
1x S-Video

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Board Number

P211

API support

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

3.0