GeForce 6600 GT and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 GT vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 6600 GT
147
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A