ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Around 41% lower typical power consumption: 41 Watt vs 58 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt vs 58 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 780 MHz

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 780 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Essentials
Architecture	R500	G8x
Code name	RV530	NB8E-SE
Launch date	1 October 2007	18 September 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	41 Watt	58 Watt
Transistor count	157 million	578 Million
Pipelines		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.48 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	780 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0