ATI Radeon HD 4650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4650 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4650

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 250 vs 143

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 September 2008 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	250 vs 143

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 53 vs 30

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	53 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

143

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4650	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	250	143
PassMark - G2D Mark	30	53
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1891
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1891

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4650	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV730	NV43 A2
Launch date	10 September 2008	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1586	1588
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt
Transistor count	514 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	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	193 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3