GeForce FX 5900 XT and GeForce 6600 AGP - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5900 XT
GeForce 6600 AGP
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
NV35
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2003
August 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
135 million
146 million
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.200
2.400
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0a
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A