GeForce 6600 GT AGP and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600 GT AGP
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2004
January 2021
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
15.2 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2