GeForce 6600 and Radeon HD 8830M - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
Radeon HD 8830M
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Venus
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2004
December 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
625 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
640
Texture fill rate
2.400
25.00
Memory type
DDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131