GeForce GT 230 and GeForce 6600 VE - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
GeForce 6600 VE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G94B
NV43
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
15.60
1.200
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
400 MBps
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
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
3.3
2.0 (full)
Shader Model4.03.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A