NVIDIA GeForce 930MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 930MX and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 90% higher core clock speed: 952 MHz vs 500 MHz
6.1x more texture fill rate: 24.48 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1293 vs 144
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 195 vs 59

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2016 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	952 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	24.48 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1293 vs 144
PassMark - G2D Mark	195 vs 59

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 930MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1293

144

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

195

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 930MX	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1293	144
PassMark - G2D Mark	195	59
Geekbench - OpenCL	5494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	23.565
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	165.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.09
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	495

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 930MX	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Curie
Code name	GM108	NV43 A2
Launch date	1 March 2016	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1115	1554
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1020 MHz
Core clock speed	952 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	783.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	24.48 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	17 Watt
Transistor count		146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus