ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD vs NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD and NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2007 vs 14 November 2004
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 244 vs 243

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 525 MHz vs 479 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 4.2 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
  • Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 756 MHz
  • Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 95 vs 49
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 525 MHz vs 479 MHz
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz vs 756 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 95 vs 49

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
49
95
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
244
243
Name ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark 49 95
PassMark - G2D Mark 244 243

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL

Essentials

Architecture R500 Curie
Code name M71 NV43 A2
Launch date 1 March 2007 14 November 2004
Place in performance rating 707 709
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 479 MHz 525 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 110 nm
Texture fill rate 1.916 GTexel / s 4.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count 107 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 3.024 GB / s 17.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 32 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 756 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3