NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP 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 9400 GT PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB

Launch date	27 August 2008 vs 14 November 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 950 MHz vs 800 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	950 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96C	NV43 A2
Launch date	27 August 2008	14 November 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	146 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	PCI	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	15.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3