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.

 

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