GeForce 6800 Ultra: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 6800 Ultra provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.36% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 Ultra sales 26 July 2004 at a recommended price of $499 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.55 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 35.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 197 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 81 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 6800 Ultra: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1280 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.30 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV45 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 26 July 2004 (20 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
GeForce 6800 Ultra's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6800 Ultra's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 425 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 222 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 81 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 6.800 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6800 Ultra 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 | |
| Length | 197 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6800 Ultra: 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 | 550 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 35.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6800 Ultra. 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, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 6800 Ultra, 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 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 6800 Ultra. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 6800 Ultra is Radeon HD 6350, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended processors
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