GeForce 6600 LE AGP and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 6600 LE AGP

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV43

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2005

January 2021

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.200

199.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MBps

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2