ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 7% higher pipelines: 120 vs 112
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 112
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

6x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
2x better floating-point performance: 336.0 gflops vs 168 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Texture fill rate	33.6 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	336.0 gflops vs 168 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV630	G92
Launch date	21 February 2008	1 February 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	168 gflops	336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	120	112
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s	33.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	390 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3