NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce 6800 XT is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 130 nm process and based on the NV41 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

NV41

Architecture

Curie

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

130 nm

Transistors

222 million

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Sep 30th, 2005

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

3.400 GPixel/s

Vertex fillrate

425.0 MVertices/s

Texture fillrate

3.400 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

500 MHz
1000 Mbps effective

GPU Clock

425 MHz

Render Config

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

Pixel Shaders

8

Vertex Shaders

4

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

1x 6-pin

Board Number

P317

API support

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL

2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

Shader Model

3.0