GeForce 6600 GT and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 6600 GT

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

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GPU code name

NV43 A2

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2004

November 2020

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

500 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

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8

Texture fill rate

4.000

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

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OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

2.1

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Shader Model

3.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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