GeForce 6600 and Radeon R3 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
Radeon R3 Graphics
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
January 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
600 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
267 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
128
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
4.800
Memory type
DDR
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131