ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 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 FX 5900 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 130 nm
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 168 vs 41
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 267 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2007 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	168 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	267 vs 170

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 850 MHz vs 800 MHz

Memory clock speed	850 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

267

170

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	168	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	267	170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1690

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	M76	NV35
Launch date	14 May 2007	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1039	1041
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	120
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	390 million	135 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		59 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	DDR2, GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0