ATI Radeon X1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV516 NV43
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 146 million
Die size 100 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 20th, 2007 Aug 12th, 2004
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 49 in our database 146 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 635 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 392 MHz 784 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 6.272 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 2.540 GPixel/s 1.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 317.5 MVertices/s 225.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.540 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 VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P229, P295

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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