GeForce 6600 AGP and Radeon 9600 PRO - video card comparison
GeForce 6600 AGP
Radeon 9600 PRO
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
1.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A