GeForce 6600 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking804not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.21no data
Power efficiency1.73no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameRV770NV43 A2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)12 August 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800no data
Core clock speed625 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors956 million146 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.002.400
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs408

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/s8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 4850 1026
+1093%
GeForce 6600 86

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 12 August 2004
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 110 nm

ATI HD 4850 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 6600. We've got no test results to judge.


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