ATI Radeon X1650 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1650 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon X1650 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 3.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.6 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X1650 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Name	ATI Radeon X1650 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark		70
PassMark - G2D Mark		35
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1095
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1095

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1650 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Tesla
Code name	RV560	G86
Launch date	1 May 2007	1 May 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	1650
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s	3.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	330 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		28.8 gflops
Pipelines		16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		20 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10.0
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3, GDDR2
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
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