GeForce 6600 and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
300 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
20.60
Memory type
DDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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