NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP vs Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP and Intel Extreme Graphics 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 560 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	8 January 2007 vs 3 December 2003
Core clock speed	560 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP	Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Generation 2.0
Code name	G73	Springdale
Launch date	8 January 2007	3 December 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	560 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	6.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt
Transistor count	177 million
Boost clock speed		266 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	7.0
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		0