Radeon R5 230 and GeForce 6600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 230 vs GeForce 6600 GT
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce 6600 GT
147
Radeon R5 230
GeForce 6600 GT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Caicos
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
August 2004
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
-
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.000
4.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-