GeForce 6600 GT and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 GT vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce 6600 GT
147
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
11.89
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A