ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 267 vs 160
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 May 2007 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 267 vs 160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 258 vs 168
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 10.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1320 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 258 vs 168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
168
258
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
267
160
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 168 258
PassMark - G2D Mark 267 160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1690

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Curie
Code name M76 G71
Launch date 14 May 2007 9 March 2006
Place in performance rating 1018 1020
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 120
Texture fill rate 4 GTexel / s 10.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 390 million 278 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 48 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1320 MHz
Memory type DDR2, GDDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PowerPlay 7.0