NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 GTO sales 14 April 2004. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 6800 GTO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV45 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 14 April 2004 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 6800 GTO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6800 GTO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 350 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 222 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.200 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 12 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 12 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6800 GTO and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6800 GTO: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6800 GTO. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 6800 GTO, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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