NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
What is the difference between NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| GT218 | GPU Name | NV43 |
| Tesla 2.0 | Architecture | Curie |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 40 nm | Process Size | 110 nm |
| 260 million | Transistors | 146 million |
| 57 mm² | Die Size | 154 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Jun 3rd, 2008 | Release Date | Aug 12th, 2004 |
| ION | Family | GeForce 6 PCIe (6600) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| PCIe 2.0 x16 | Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
| System Shared | Memory Size | 128 MB |
| System Shared | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| System Shared | Memory Bus | 128 bit |
| System Dependent | Bandwidth | 16.00 GB/s |
Performance
| 2.000 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 2.000 GPixel/s |
| 4.000 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 4.000 GTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| System Shared | Memory Clock | 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective |
| 500 MHz | GPU Clock | 500 MHz |
Render Config
| 8 | TMUs | 8 |
| 4 | ROPs | 4 |
Board Design
| IGP | Slot Width | Single-slot |
| 20 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | unknown |
| No outputs | Display Connectors | 1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video |
API support
| 11.1 (10_1) | DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) |
| 3.3 | OpenGL | 2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial) |
| 1.1 | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 4.1 | Shader Model | 3.0 |