GeForce 6600 and GeForce2 GTS - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
GeForce2 GTS
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
NV15 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
April 2000
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
25 million
Texture fill rate
2.400
1.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
7.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A