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.

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

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	890
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