Radeon 9500 PRO and GeForce 6600 GT AGP - video card comparison
Radeon 9500 PRO
GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
R300
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2002
November 2004
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
275 MHz
500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
146 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.200
4.000
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
540 MHz
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.64 GB/s
15.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
2.1
Shader Model
-
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A