GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 's Advantages
Released 19 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
-
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
-
120
TMUs
12
48
ROPs
8
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
32 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
145W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
NV42
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
110 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
181 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
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
12.0
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
3.0
