GeForce 6600 VE: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 6600 VE sales on 2005. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 110 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 6600 VE: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | NV43 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2005 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 6600 VE's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 6600 VE's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 146 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.200 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 6600 VE and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 6600 VE: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 200 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 6600 VE. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 6600 VE, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial) | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 6600 VE according to our statistics.
