GeForce 6600 GT vs RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	36	not rated
Place by popularity	96	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	63.72	no data
Power efficiency	25.90	no data
Architecture	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	AD106	NV43 A2
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	18 May 2023 (1 year ago)	12 August 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	$64.95

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	4352	no data
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2535 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	22,900 million	146 million
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	344.8	4.000
Floating-point processing power	22.06 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	48	4
TMUs	136	8
Tensor Cores	136	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	34	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	240 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	16 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.7	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	8.9	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 May 2023	12 August 2004
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	5 nm	110 nm

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