NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
38
-
Shading Units
4864
12
TMUs
152
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
GA104
6800 XT
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Curie
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
110 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
