NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP vs ATI FireGL V8650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 6600 AGP and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
320 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
868 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
R600
-
GPU Variant
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
