GeForce 6600 and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 6600
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
Navi 14
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2004
October 2019
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1845 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
-
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
162.4
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131