• Vertex Shaders
  • Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0
  • Displacement mapping
  • Geometry Instancing
  • Infinite length vertex programs
• Pixel Shaders
  • Support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0
  • Full pixel branching support
  • Support for Multiple Render Targets(MRTs)
  • Infinite length pixel programs
• Next-Generation Texture Engine
  • Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
  • Support for 16-bit floating point format and 32-bit floating point format
  • Support for non-power of two textures
  • Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
  • DirectX and S3TC texture compression
• Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with native hardware support for 32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering modes

64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending

• Full floating point support throughout entire pipeline
• Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
• Floating point texturing drives new levels of clarity and image detail
• Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

Intellisample 3.0 Technology

• Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering
• Blistering-fast antialiasing and compression performance
• New rotated-grid antialiasing removes jagged edges for incredible edge quality
• Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at even higher resolutions and frame rates
• Fast z-clear
• High-resolution compression technology (HCT) increases performance at higher resolutions through advances in compression technology

Ultrashadow II Technology

• Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games, like id Software's Doom III

Advanced Engineering

• Over 220m transistors
• Designed for PCI Express x16
• Supports PCI Express high-speed interconnect (HSI) technology for bidirectional interconnect protocol conversion
• Full support of AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
• Support for the industry's fastest GDDR3 memory
• 256-bit advanced memory interface
• 0.13 micron process technology
• Advanced thermal management and thermal monitoring
• BGA flip-chip package

Advanced Video and Display Functionality

• Dedicated on-chip video processor
• MPEG video encode and decode
• WMV9 decode acceleration
• Advanced adaptive de-interlacing
• High-quality video scaling and filtering
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz.
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
• Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window
• Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability

NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0

• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls

Operating Systems

• Windows XP
• Windows 2000

API Support

• Complete DirectX support, including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 9.0
• Full OpenGL, including OpenGL 1.5

GeForce 6800 Ultra

• Graphics Core: 256-bit
• Memory Interface: 256-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 35.2GB/sec
• Fill Rate: 6.4 billion texels/sec.
• Vertices/sec. 600 million
• Memory Data Rate: 1100MHz
• Pixels per Clock (peak): 16
• Textures per Pixel: 16
• RAMDACs 400MHz