GeForce 6600 and FirePro V7800 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
FirePro V7800
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Cypress
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
August 2004
April 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
300 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
-
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
50.40
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 2x 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