GeForce 6600 VE and GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB - video card comparison

GeForce 6600 VE

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

NV43

TU106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2005

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1650 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2176

Power consumption (TDP)

184 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.200

224.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MBps

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3