ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Core clock speed 520 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1196 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed 1196 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture R400 Curie
Code name R480 G73
Launch date 10 September 2006 2 September 2006
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 520 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s 6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 160 million 177 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI 2x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 9.0b 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 34.6 GB / s 19.14 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1080 MHz 1196 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

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