The GeForce 6800 XT was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 30th, 2005. Built on the 110 nm process, and based on the NV42 graphics processor, in its 6800 XT variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0c. Since GeForce 6800 XT does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV42 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 222 mm² and 198 million transistors. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units, and 12 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 256 MB GDDR3 memory with the GeForce 6800 XT, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 450 MHz, memory is running at 600 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT draws power from 1x Molex power connector, with power draw not exactly known. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video. GeForce 6800 XT is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 8x interface.