ATI FireGL 8800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R200 NV43
GPU variant R200 GL 8800
Architecture Rage 7 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 146 million
Die size 120 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 14th, 2001 Aug 12th, 2004
Generation FireGL GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 4x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 5 in our database 146 in our database
Predecessor GeForce PCX
Successor GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 300 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 290 MHz 580 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 9.280 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 8
Vertex shaders 2 3
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 4

Performance

Pixel rate 1.200 GPixel/s 1.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 150.0 MVertices/s 225.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.400 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number 906-00 P229, P295

API Support & Features

DirectX 8.1 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 1.3 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 1.4
Vertex shader 1.1
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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