
Quadro FX 580 and GeForce 6600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 580 vs GeForce 6600 GT
Quadro FX 580
166
GeForce 6600 GT
147
Quadro FX 580
GeForce 6600 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G96C
NV43 A2
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2009
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
7.200
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A