ATI Radeon X1650 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV560 NV43
GPU variant RV560 XT (215PAGAKA12FG)
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 146 million
Die size 230 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 30th, 2006 Aug 12th, 2004
Generation Radeon R500 AGP GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 49 in our database 146 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 540 MHz 300 MHz
Memory clock 680 MHz 1360 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 21.76 GB/s 8.000 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 24 8
Vertex shaders 8 3
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 8 4

Performance

Pixel rate 4.320 GPixel/s 1.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.080 GVertices/s 225.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 4.320 GTexel/s 2.400 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 55 W unknown
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x 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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