ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V7600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition and ATI FireGL V7600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

ATI FireGL V7600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7600

Around 51% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 398 MHz
4.5x more texture fill rate: 7.2 GTexel / s vs 1.592 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 792 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 398 MHz
Texture fill rate	7.2 GTexel / s vs 1.592 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 792 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7600

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition	ATI FireGL V7600
PassMark - G3D Mark		616
PassMark - G2D Mark		488

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition	ATI FireGL V7600
Essentials
Architecture	R500	TeraScale
Code name	M56	R600
Launch date	8 November 2007	6 November 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	303
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$999
Technical info
Core clock speed	398 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	1.592 GTexel / s	7.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	157 million	720 million
Floating-point performance		288 gflops
Pipelines		240
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		127 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10.0
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.67 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3