NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP vs ATI Radeon 9800 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP and ATI Radeon 9800 SE 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

ATI Radeon 9800 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 331 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 1.324 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 580 MHz

Launch date	1 July 2006 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 331 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 1.324 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 580 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 SE

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	ATI Radeon 9800 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark		24
PassMark - G2D Mark		131

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	ATI Radeon 9800 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 8
Code name	G73	R350
Launch date	1 July 2006	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	1246
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	331 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	1.324 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	Floppy
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	23.2 GB / s	9.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR