RTX A4500 Mobile vs GeForce 6800 GT Dual

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated76
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.37
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV45GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date8 June 2004 (20 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data5888
Core clock speed350 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors222 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data140 Watt
Texture fill rate5.600276.0
Floating-point processing powerno data17.66 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2004 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 8 nm

RTX A4500 Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6800 GT Dual and RTX A4500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6800 GT Dual is a desktop card while RTX A4500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual
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