GeForce 6500 and PG506-232 - video card comparison

GeForce 6500

PG506-232

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV44 A2

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2005

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

-

1440 MHz

Core clock speed

400 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

75 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

-

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.600

322.6

Memory type

DDR2

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

3072 Bit

Memory clock speed

532 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

8.512 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

N/A

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

Shader Model

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

N/A