NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA ION

NVIDIA GeForce 6600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 108 vs 86
2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 571 vs 211
2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 571 vs 211

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2008 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	108 vs 86
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571 vs 211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571 vs 211

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600

2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 39 vs 16

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	39 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

108

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

211

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

211

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
PassMark - G3D Mark	108	86
PassMark - G2D Mark	16	39
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	MCP7A-ION	NV43 A2
Launch date	3 June 2008	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1692	1691
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	146 million
Texture fill rate		2.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	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