ATI Radeon X1650 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1650 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1650 PRO

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 85 vs 25
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 August 2006 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 85 vs 25

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 242 vs 241

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X1650 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
85
25
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
241
242
Name ATI Radeon X1650 PRO NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
PassMark - G3D Mark 85 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 241 242

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X1650 PRO NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Essentials

Architecture R500 Curie
Code name RV535 C61
Launch date 23 August 2006 11 October 2004
Place in performance rating 714 715
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 44 Watt
Transistor count 330 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCI
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR3