NVIDIA GeForce 6600
VS
AMD Tonga
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
VS
AMD Tonga

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

not rated
Place in performance rating
not rated
0.69
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Curie
Architecture
GCN 3.0
NV43 A2
Code name
Tonga
Desktop
Type
Desktop
12 August 2004 (17 years ago)
Release date
no data
$150
Price now
$27
NV43 A2
GPU code name
Tonga
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

no data
Pipelines
2048
300 MHz
Core clock speed
no data
146 million
Transistor count
5,000 million
110 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
2.400
Texture fill rate
no data
no data
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
146 million
Number of transistors
5,000 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
no data
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga can be seen in this section.

DDR
Memory type
no data
256 MB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
128 Bit
Memory bus width
no data
500 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and AMD Tonga graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or AMD Tonga good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6600
AMD Tonga
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6600
AMD Tonga
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6600
AMD Tonga
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6600
AMD Tonga
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6600
AMD Tonga
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 6600

0.16% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of AMD Tonga

Cheaper ($27 vs $150)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 110 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or AMD Tonga?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 6600 .

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 versus AMD Tonga performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 6600
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Tonga