Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce 6600
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
GeForce 6600
89
Radeon R9 295X2
GeForce 6600
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
August 2004
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
-
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
179.2
2.400
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
9.0c (9_3)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
3.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-