ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP and NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 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 Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 220 MHz
60x more pipelines: 120 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 792 MHz vs 440 MHz
27.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 110 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2007 vs 6 February 2002
Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 220 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	792 MHz vs 440 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	110 vs 4

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go

185.3x more texture fill rate: 880 MTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 140 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	880 MTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	140 vs 137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

137

140

Name	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	110	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	137	140

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Celsius
Code name	RV630	NV17 A5
Launch date	28 June 2007	6 February 2002
Place in performance rating	1192	1195
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	594 MHz	220 MHz
Floating-point performance	142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	120	2
Texture fill rate	4.75 GTexel / s	880 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	390 million	29 million
Boost clock speed		220 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.67 GB / s	7.04 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	220 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	440 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	32