NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
56
-
Shading Units
3584
12
TMUs
224
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
165W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x Molex
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
GA100
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
N/A
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
N/A
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
3.0
Shader Model
N/A
