NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP vs ATI FireGL V5600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 6600 AGP and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Aug 2007
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
120
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
89W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
RV630
-
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
