GeForce 6600 GT and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
July 2013
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
875 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
160
Power consumption (TDP)
-
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
7.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A