ATI Radeon 9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 NV43
GPU variant R300 9700 (215R8CBKA13F)
Architecture Rage 8 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 146 million
Die size 215 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 1st, 2002 Aug 12th, 2004
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 1 in our database 146 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 275 MHz 500 MHz
Memory clock 270 MHz 540 Mbps effective 560 MHz 1120 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 17.28 GB/s 17.92 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 2.200 GPixel/s 2.000 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 275.0 MVertices/s 375.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.200 GTexel/s 4.000 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 37 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors Floppy 1x 6-pin
Board number 942 P216

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.0 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0
Vertex shader 2.0
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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