AMD Radeon R5 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 9 month(s) later
3x more texture fill rate: 12.13 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm

Launch date	31 May 2016 vs 12 August 2004
Texture fill rate	12.13 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

2.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Name	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Geekbench - OpenCL	2905
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.166
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	119.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	12.649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	42.459
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1915
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1363
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1915
PassMark - G3D Mark		144
PassMark - G2D Mark		59

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Curie
Code name	Wani	NV43 A2
Launch date	31 May 2016	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1555	1554
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	256
Texture fill rate	12.13 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	2,410 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