GeForce 6600 GT and Grenada - video card comparison

GeForce 6600 GT

Grenada

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

NV43 A2

Grenada

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2004

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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

28 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

6,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

2816

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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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170