GeForce 210 and GeForce 6600 GT Dual - video card comparison

GeForce 210

GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GT218

NV43 A2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2009

August 2004

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

589 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

39.36 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

146 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

30.5 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

4.160

4.000

Memory type

GDDR2

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

128 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

1120 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.0 GB/s

17.92 GB/s

Display Connectors

DVIVGADisplayPort

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

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.1

2.1

Shader Model

4.1

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A