Over 20 years of PC history
| Reference NV40 Board | nVidia GeForce 6800 (chip only) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPU type | NV40 | NV40 |
| Manufacturing process | 130 nm | 130 nm |
| Transistors | 222 million | 222 million |
| Die size | 287 mm2 | 287 mm2 |
| ROPs | 16 | 12 (0.75×) |
| TMUs | 16 | 12 (0.75×) |
| PS / VS | Unified Shaders | 16 / 6 | - | 12 / 5 | - (0.77×) |
| GPU clock | 400 MHz | 325 MHz (0.81×) |
| Pixel / texel fillrate | 6 400 MP/s ; 6 400 MT/s | 3 900 MP/s (0.5×) ; 3 900 MT/s (0.5×) |
| SP / DP gigaflops | - ; - | - ; - |
| DirectX / OpenGL | 9c ; 2.1 | 9c ; 2.1 |
| CUDA / OpenCL | - ; - | - ; - |
| Memory | 256 MB GDDR3 | - MB (0×) - |
| Memory | 1 100 MHz ; 256 bit | 700 MHz (700×) ; 256 bit |
| Bandwith | 35 200 MB/s | 22 400 MB/s (0.63×) |
| Interface | AGP 8x [2 133 MB/s] | AGP 8x [2 133 MB/s] |
| TDP | 81 W | - |
| Analog I/O ports | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I | - |
| Digital I/O ports | 2 × DVI-I | - |
| Independent screens | 2 | 2 |
| Introduce date | 2004 | 2004 |