GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GTX vs GeForce 6600
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
GeForce 6600
89
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 6600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G80
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A