AMD Radeon HD 6670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6670 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6670

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 8.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 724 vs 86
  • 6.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 39
  • 15.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 211
  • 15.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 211
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 April 2011 vs 12 August 2004
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 724 vs 86
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 vs 39
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348 vs 211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348 vs 211

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6670
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
724
86
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
247
39
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3348
211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3348
211
Name AMD Radeon HD 6670 NVIDIA GeForce 6600
PassMark - G3D Mark 724 86
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 39
Geekbench - OpenCL 1905
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 235.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 38.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348 211
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348 211
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6670 NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Turks NV43 A2
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date 19 April 2011 12 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Place in performance rating 1255 1691
Price now $102.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 13.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 480
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 66 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 146 million
Core clock speed 300 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire