AMD Radeon R2 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R2 Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

AMD Radeon R2 Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R2 Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 5.6 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 250 vs 143
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 67 vs 53

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 February 2015 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	250 vs 143
PassMark - G2D Mark	67 vs 53

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R2 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

143

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	AMD Radeon R2 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	250	143
PassMark - G2D Mark	67	53
Geekbench - OpenCL	7324
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	93.854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.263
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.299
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	16.121
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	375
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1282
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1912
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	375
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1282
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1912

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R2 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Curie
Code name	Beema	NV43 A2
Launch date	27 February 2015	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1589	1588
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	179.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	930 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz