NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 14% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 67 Watt
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	1 July 2006 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 67 Watt
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 5.6 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		142
PassMark - G2D Mark		212

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	NV40 A1
Launch date	1 July 2006	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	849
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	222 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	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	23.2 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3