
GeForce 6600 GT and PG506-232 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600 GT
PG506-232
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
April 2021
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
-
1440 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
-
165 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
322.6
Memory type
GDDR3
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
24 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
3072 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16 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