NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 240 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
2.9x more memory clock speed: 950 MHz vs 332 MHz

Launch date	14 November 2004 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	950 MHz vs 332 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 PCI

240x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV43 A2	NV34 A2
Launch date	14 November 2004	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt
Transistor count	146 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
Length		152 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	15.2 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR