NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP vs ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP and ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum

  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 7.2x more texture fill rate: 8.64 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • 3x more memory clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 400 MHz
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.64 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1180 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum

Essentials

Architecture Curie R400
Code name NV43 A2 R480
Launch date 1 January 2005 21 December 2004
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 300 MHz 540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1.2 GTexel / s 8.64 GTexel / s
Transistor count 146 million 160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 67 Watt

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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0b
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 37.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz 1180 MHz
Memory type DDR GDDR3

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