GeForce 6600 and GeForce GT 1010 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
GeForce GT 1010
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
GP108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1468 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
256
Power consumption (TDP)
-
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
23.49
Memory type
DDR
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
40.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2