Radeon 9600 XT vs GeForce 6600 GT for Retro Gaming
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- How do the best mainstream cards of 2003 and 2004 compare? The GeForce 6600 GT is ready to kick the Radeon 9600 XT out of the market!
✅ Test Platform
→ ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
→ Core2 Duo E6600
→ 2 GB DDR2 667 MHz
→ Win XP SP2
→ Omega Drivers 2.5.9.0
→ ForceWare 175.19
⌛Timestamps
0:00 Let's start this!
1:48 Synthetic benchmarks
2:30 Quake II
3:55 Quake III
4:35 Unreal Tournament 99
5:06 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
6:30 Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
7:35 Dungeon Siege 1
8:53 X2: The Threat
10:30 Far Cry
12:00 Doom 3
12:50 Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
14:20 F.E.A.R.
15:50 Conclusions
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Upgraded from a fx5200 to a 6600GT on my Dell Pentium 4 3ghz AGP desktop in 2005 as a teenager and the jump in performance was mindblowing! 6600GT may just be the best mid range card ever made and that Pentium 4 Machine still works to this day and whenever I go to visit my parents for a weekend I still boot it up to get a run on half life 2, Doom 3 and other old classics 🙂. Great roundup geek, I think another good retro benchmarking video could be made to show the jump from Pentium 4/single core to the first gen of core 2 duo/Athlon x2 CPU's which was also a big step at the time!
Hey, It's nice that you have your old machine available, and the fact that it's somewhere at your parents is pure nostalgia.
Thanks for the idea, noted :)
A great channel, enjoyed several videos and still more to watch. Thank you reminding me of my teenage years.
Thanks :)
Great work on this one :)
Thanks :)
Nice video. Incerc de ceva vreme sa fac rost de o 9600XT functionala, am avut vreo 3 luate la pret bun, dar si defecte :))
Mc. Ce trist...nu ai cerut proba inainte? Eu nu iau altfel, mai ales ca iau destule, nu imi permit.
@@MidnightGeek99 Orase diferite, preturi intre 20-50lei bucata, o Asus 9600xt arata ca noua, dar avea artefacte, vanzatorul a fost cinstit si mi-a dat banii inapoi. Restul le-am donat. Poate gasesc luna asta ceva :D
Great job and a lot of work behind the scenes! I think that you've spent many hours aquiring all that data.
Although, my opinion is that this test is very relevant as a generation over generation comparison.
Anyway, if I remember well, the 6600GT was a very good card at the moment, almost as good as the standard 6800 and almost a 100$ cheaper. Another slap from nVidia's side to the pioneers that bought the 6800🙂
Yeah, the 6800 was not that great, performance / price, instead, Nvidia released another hit, the 6800 GS.
Cool video and cool video cards 😊
Thank you :)
Very nice test, after FX series nvidia returned with vengeance with GeForce 6 series , i upgraded my Sapphire 9600pro to 7600GS.
On Athlon XP 3200+ Barton core. AGP card with PCI express bridge was like a small miracle
That bridge was a life saver for many...in 2004 PCIe was still far away for many of us.
Yo Midnight Geek! If you have one can you do benchmarks with the core 2 extreme qx6700 cpu? I think it was first quad core cpu by Intel.
Hello! Unfortunately, I don't have any QX CPUs.
@@MidnightGeek99 allright man keep up the videos
Nice benchmarks! Although the ATI 9600XT was a great mid range card at the end of 2003, the nvidia 6600GT relased less than 1 year later was much faster.
Indeed, but in 2003 you were extremely fine with the 9600 XT.
9600 was good with Doom3, HL2 and FEAR only on low settings. Even with ram. This is why I switched to better cards on my retro pcs.
Nice job! Thanks!
Thank you. Yes, it runs those games like a champ. Unfortunately, 2004 was the year when video games had a very big jump in graphics.
I still have working evga 6600GT agp in my 2005 athlon64 3200 socket 754 pc build 😁
Sweet, an excellent combination.
I have an Athlon64 3200+ together with an Radeon 9800 XT.
I remember when the 6600GT came out, it crushed EVERYTHING from a price/performance ratio. It was *the* card to get if you didn't want to spend $$$$$ on a flagship card.
That's right, this was true for 2004, and in 2005 the 6800 GS took it's place as the price / performance king.
How if i can get 2000+ pixel and texture fill rate till my overclocks hits twice the stock frecuency cant be as fast as the nvidia. It doesen't make sense comparing a GT 6600 cause it's way better than a regular 6600 here it can rivalize with a @9600xt the abit 9550xturbo guru in my case. Thanks!
Well, you might compare cards if they were available on the same time on the market...and the price was not a lot different.
These are two of my favorite agp cards :)
Because the cards were great!
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I think you should compare the Radeon to the Geforce FX series.
If you want to compare with the same generation, sure :)
The 6600gt agp has slower memory than the pciex version; 900 mhz for agp, 1000 mhz for pciex.
The memory can usually be overclocked to 1000 mhz.
I had the pciex version back in the day, i recently acquired the agp version for one of my retro pc's.
I also have the 6700 xl, which is a Medion version. Slightly faster and 256 Mb.
Edit: 128 Mb, but @1100 Mhz.
Yeah, just 900 MHz for the AGP, but the memories have heatsinks, so...
@@MidnightGeek99 the heatsink might be for the conversion chip .
The 6600 gt is PCIe, but the agp version has a conversion chip (PCIe to agp) which runs quite hot.
with the 9600 xt you could play crysis with dna drivers! YOu wil gain FPS boost everywhere.
Does it run Crysis?
@@MidnightGeek99 Just with DNA drivers. Don't know if guru3d download section still have these online. Only barrier was the shader model version, as for MOH Airborne as example. Also I just tryed the Demo of Crysis, maybe 800x600 as I had this video card back in the days! Had 5-18 fps with a bad Celeron CPU and this card.
What OS using for both cards?
Windows XP, in the video description there are more details.
@@MidnightGeek99 ah sorry my bad 😞 Any chance to try with Win98 se
@@semihgursu the support for Geforce 6600gt is bad for Windows 98se, there are alot of crash in some game's. But the ATI Radeon work's fine.
This exemplifies why people were better off buying the XT over the base 9600 (or the 9550).
Fun fact: Paired with the Core 2 Duo, your 9600XT is faster than my 6600GT. In 3DMark 2001SE it only gets 11,425 3D Marks with my Athlon XP 3000+ while my 9550 (250MHz 9600) 8,949 3D Marks.
The early 2000's - when mid to high range GPU got that good that they needed CPU years newer to see their full potential. Or any potential when it comes to games such as Oblivion. I really should organise my results into a spreadsheet - after all I did the same when I went through my families' computers doing Aida64 memory + cache benchmarking.
In the 2000s, the CPUs were way behind the GPUs, case in point, an Athlon64 3200+ bottlenecks a GeForce4 Ti 4200...
@@MidnightGeek99 If only my PCX 5750 hadn't been dead (along with the PC's motherboard and PSU - scorch mark behind PSU PCB). Comparing the 5700 in my Mum's Sempron 2800+ PC to the 5750 with an E6500K, QX6850 @ 3.6GHz (or Xeon E5450 at 4.4GHz) would have been fun.
But alas, Intel P45 chipsets really haven't withstood the test of time, and both of my boards ended up dead/effectively useless. Much like the Pentium 4 540J that came with the early LGA775 PC (Northwood P4 HT 3.2GHz with single channel high latency DDR 333 was faster than it with dual channel DDR2 1066).
@@dabombinablemi6188 P35, best 775 chipset ever :)
I have a passively cooled Via C7 D PC with a passively cooled 6600 Gt with 512 MB 😁 It was a funny idea even if the processor isn't exactly a top model 😏
Passive cooling is awesome, people should do it more often!
Interesting Video but there isn't much difference between 9600 Pro and XT the XT version has only 100 MHZ more CLock speed. The results should be around 3 fps more than Pro.
During the X600 XT is much higher clocked than the X 600 Pro.
The helium must've been low purity in this one.
:)))
It's a little off, yeah!
And all Call of Duty´s? (2, 4, MW & BO)
What about them? :)
@@MidnightGeek99 I didn't see them in the video.
@@INDIGUISTA I know...I'm planning to add COD 2 into the mix.
6600 was oponent to 9800.. 6600GT to 9800XT.
I think that there was a period when this was true, yes, because there were stocks of the older card, such as the Radeon 9800.
what does XT stand for? extra?
probably something like Extreme
@@tennickjestzajety69 No. It's acronym for Xehanort's Testicles
eXTreme? It's funny that they also had XTX....eXTremeX?
Yeah.
Geforce FX 5xxx = the xt is the slower variant
Pe seria Radeon si windows 9x, nu merge Screamer 4x4, Mario and Luigi clone iar GTA 3 sacadeaza.
E de la drivere sigur :)
And here we are in 2023:
Today the New gen rtx 4060ti slower Than the 3060ti
Megalololo
It's called progress!
@@MidnightGeek99 -16 times the progress 😄
am auzit vocea si accentul si am zis "asta clar e roman"
:)))
GeForce 6600 GT is higher gen than Radeon 9600 XT, it is newer, it is compared to 9800xt
That's right, but they were both mainstream cards at their time.
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