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.

ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

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