NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model NV43 NV35
Architecture Curie Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 110 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 146 million 135 million
Die size 154 mm² 207 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date 2005 May 12th, 2003
Generation GeForce 6 PCIe GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Reviews 146 in our database 11 in our database
Predecessor GeForce PCX GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 6.400 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 1.200 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 150.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.200 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 35 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x Molex

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial) 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a

Other Features

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