GeForce 6600 and Radeon 9500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 vs Radeon 9500
GeForce 6600
89
Radeon 9500
37
GeForce 6600
Radeon 9500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
110 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
1.100
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
17.28 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A