NVIDIA GeForce 9200 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9200 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9200

NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 169 vs 86
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 502 vs 211
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 502 vs 211

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	169 vs 86
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	502 vs 211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	502 vs 211

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 39 vs 27

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	39 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9200
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

169

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

502

211

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

502

211

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9200	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
PassMark - G3D Mark	169	86
PassMark - G2D Mark	27	39
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	502	211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	502	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9200	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	C78	NV43 A2
Launch date	17 April 2007	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1683	1686
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	146 million
Texture fill rate		2.4 GTexel / s
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	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Memory type		DDR