NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE vs ATI Radeon X700 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE and ATI Radeon X700 LE 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 VE

ATI Radeon X700 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700 LE

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE	ATI Radeon X700 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	NV43 A2	RV410
Launch date	1 January 2005	21 December 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	120 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	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR