The groundbreaking new NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 graphics processing units (GPUs) and their revolutionary technologies power worlds where reality and fantasy meet; worlds in which new standards are set for visual realism and quality, performance, and video functionality. The GeForce 6800 GPUs deliver powerful, elegant graphics to drench your senses, immersing you in unparalleled worlds of visual effects for the ultimate PC experience.

Available models: GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800 GT, GeForce 6800 GS, GeForce 6800, and GeForce 6800 XT.



CineFX 3.0 NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 Technology
Powers the next generation of cinematic realism. Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother gameplay.



UltraShadow 2 NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ II Technology
Enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software's Doom III, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. Second-generation technology delivers more than 4× the shadow processing power over the previous generation.



Clear Sailing Demo Superscalar 16-pipe GPU Architecture
Delivers 8× the shading power of previous generation products for screaming gaming performance.



Timbury Demo 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
Based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic, NVIDIA’s 64-bit texture implementation sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending.

Memory Interface256-bit
Memory512 MB
Memory Bandwidth35.2 GB/sec.
Fill Rate6.4 billion texels/sec.
Vertices per Second600 Million
Memory Data Rate1050 MHz
Pixels per Clock (peak)16
Textures per Pixel*16
RAMDACs400 MHz
*Maximum in a single rendering pass