Radeon X1950 XT and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XT
GeForce 6600
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
R580+
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
146 million
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
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Texture fill rate
10.00
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A