GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs 6800 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV45AD103
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 June 2004 (20 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 data9728
Core clock speed350 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors222 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)67 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate5.600442.3
Floating-point processing powerno data28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs16112
TMUs16304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s448.0 GB/s

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-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2004 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 67 Watt 80 Watt

6800 GT has 19.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6800 GT and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6800 GT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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