ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 54% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 2.56 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 110
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 267 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2007 vs 16 January 2005
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s vs 2.56 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 110
PassMark - G2D Mark	267 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

267

166

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	168	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	267	166
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1690

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M76	NV41
Launch date	14 May 2007	16 January 2005
Place in performance rating	1039	1040
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	120
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	2.56 GTexel / s
Transistor count	390 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR2, GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0