ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 5.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 950 MHz

Launch date	23 January 2008 vs 14 November 2004
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 950 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	150
PassMark - G2D Mark	155

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV635	NV43 A2
Launch date	23 January 2008	14 November 2004
Place in performance rating	1095	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	120
Texture fill rate	5.8 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	378 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	15.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3