GeForce 6600 and Radeon 9600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 vs Radeon 9600 XT
GeForce 6600
89
Radeon 9600 XT
36
GeForce 6600
Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
RV360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
22 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
2.000
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
9.6 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