NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XE: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 6800 XE sales 30 September 2005. 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 DDR2 memory clocked at 0.53 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.512 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 6800 XE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	NV40
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	30 September 2005 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 6800 XE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6800 XE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	275 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	222 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	2.200	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6800 XE 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	AGP 8x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6800 XE: 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	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	532 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	8.512 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6800 XE. 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

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 6800 XE, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 6800 XE. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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