GeForce 6600 GT and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.000
20.60
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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