Intel GMA X3500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel GMA X3500 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT 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.

Intel GMA X3500

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA X3500

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 667 MHz vs 600 MHz

Core clock speed	667 MHz vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 90 nm

Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 90 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel GMA X3500	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 4.0	TeraScale
Code name	Bearlake	M76
Launch date	1 August 2007	26 July 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	667 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt
Floating-point performance		144 gflops
Pipelines		120
Texture fill rate		4.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	MXM-II
API support
DirectX	9.0c	10.0
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		21.92 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1370 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3