GeForce 6600 LE AGP vs Radeon HD 8400

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1172	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.91	no data
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Kalindi	NV43
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 November 2013 (10 years ago)	2005 (19 years ago)

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	128	no data
Core clock speed	400 MHz	300 MHz
Number of transistors	1,178 million	146 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	3.200	1.200
Floating-point processing power	0.1024 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	4

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	IGP	AGP 8x
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	System Shared	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	128 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	6.4 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

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

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.3	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

110 nm

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