GeForce 6600 and Radeon 9800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6600 vs Radeon 9800
GeForce 6600
89
Radeon 9800
59
GeForce 6600
Radeon 9800
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
R350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
300 MHz
325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
117 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
2.600
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
580 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
18.56 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