NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 6800 XE is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 130 nm process and based on the NV40 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Benchmarks

PassMark G3D

59

PassMark G2D

166

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

NV40

Architecture

Curie

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

130 nm

Transistors

222 million

Die Size

287 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 30th, 2005

Family

GeForce 6 AGP
(6800)

Production

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce FX

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Memory

Memory Size

256 MB

Memory Type

DDR2

Memory Bus

128 bit

Bandwidth

8.512 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

2.200 GPixel/s

Vertex fillrate

206.3 MVertices/s

Texture fillrate

2.200 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

266 MHz
532 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

275 MHz

Render Config

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

Pixel Shaders

8

Vertex Shaders

3

Board Design

Slot Width

Single-slot

Thermal design power (TDP)

unknown

Suggested PSU

200 W

Display Connectors

1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

Power Connectors

None

Board Number

P212

API support

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

3.0