GeForce 6600 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 6600
89
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 6600
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
2.200
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
8.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.4
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A