GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 6600
GeForce 8500 GT
140
GeForce 6600
89
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 6600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G86
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A