NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO 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 8600 GS

ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 96% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 275 MHz
3.9x more texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
18.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 31 March 2003
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	92 vs 5

Reasons to consider the ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 100

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	103 vs 100

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

103

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	100	103

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G84	RV250
Launch date	17 April 2007	31 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1354	1355
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	36 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 2x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	7.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	450 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR