GeForce 6600 VE and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 6600 VE

Radeon RX 6600 XT

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV43

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

2005

July 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2589 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

1968 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

146 million

11,060 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

160 (TGP) Watt

Texture fill rate

1.200

331.4

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MBps

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12.0 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.06.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2