GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce 6600 VE - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3090

GeForce 6600 VE

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

NV43

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

2005

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

Core clock speed

1400 MHz

300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

146 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10496

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

Texture fill rate

556.0

1.200

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

128 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

19500 MHz

400 MBps

Memory bandwidth

936.2 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

8.5

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0 (full) Shader Model6.53.0

Vulkan

1.2

N/A