Radeon HD 6730M and GeForce 6600 GT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6730M
GeForce 6600 GT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Whistler-XT
NV43 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
August 2004
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
696.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
17.40
4.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A