GeForce 6600 GT and Radeon 9700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 GT vs Radeon 9700
GeForce 6600 GT
147
Radeon 9700
55
GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon 9700
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
July 2002
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
Floppy
Core clock speed
500 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
17.28 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