GeForce 6600 and GeForce 205 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
GeForce 205 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
November 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
589 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
16
Power consumption (TDP)
-
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
4.712
Memory type
DDR
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A