ATI Radeon X600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV370 NV43
Architecture Rage 9 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 110 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 146 million
Die size 74 mm² 154 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 1st, 2004 Aug 12th, 2004
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 24 in our database 146 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective 560 MHz 1120 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 8.000 GB/s 17.92 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 1.600 GPixel/s 2.000 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 200.0 MVertices/s 375.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.600 GTexel/s 4.000 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 36 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number P216

API Support & Features

DirectX 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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