GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 15 years late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
-
184
TMUs
12
96
ROPs
8
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
220W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
NV42
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Ampere
Architecture
Curie
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
110 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
392 mm²
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
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
3.0
