GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce 6600 VE - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070

GeForce 6600 VE

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104

NV43

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2016

2005

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

300 MHz

CUDA cores

1920

-

Floating-point performance

6,463 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

146 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

-

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

-

Texture fill rate

202.0

1.200

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

8 GB/s

400 MBps

Memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.0 (full) Shader Model6.43.0

Vulkan

+

N/A

Ansel

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-