NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE vs ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE

ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE

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 54% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 350 MHz
6.2x more texture fill rate: 8.64 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 69% higher memory clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 700 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.64 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz vs 700 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE	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	350 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.4 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	PCIe 1.0 x16	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	11.2 GB / s	37.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	1180 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3