NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 6600 AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
