ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition and ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm

Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 473 MHz vs 398 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 5.7 GTexel / s vs 1.592 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 24% higher memory clock speed: 986 MHz vs 792 MHz

Core clock speed	473 MHz vs 398 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.7 GTexel / s vs 1.592 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	986 MHz vs 792 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition	ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP
Essentials
Architecture	R500	R400
Code name	M56	R420
Launch date	8 November 2007	8 November 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	398 MHz	473 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.592 GTexel / s	5.7 GTexel / s
Transistor count	157 million	160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.67 GB / s	31.55 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	986 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3