NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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 7800 GS AGP

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 19% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 89 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 199 vs 198
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 177 vs 138

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 February 2006 vs 24 February 2005
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 89 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	199 vs 198
PassMark - G3D Mark	177 vs 138

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 375 MHz

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 375 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

199

198

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

177

138

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G2D Mark	199	198
PassMark - G3D Mark	177	138

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G71	NV41
Launch date	2 February 2006	24 February 2005
Place in performance rating	860	873
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	375 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	89 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	222 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Pipelines		12
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	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0