NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP vs ATI Radeon X1550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 6600 AGP and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
27W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
RV516
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-
-
Curie
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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3.0
Shader Model
3.0
