NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition and ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Name NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
PassMark - G2D Mark 197
PassMark - G3D Mark 43

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Essentials

Architecture Curie
Code name G73
Launch date 2 September 2006 30 August 2006
Place in performance rating not rated 891
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 80 nm
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt
Transistor count 177 million
Boost clock speed 400 MHz
Pipelines 4

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 19.14 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1196 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 1