NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 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 Mobility Radeon 7500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 230 MHz
8x more pipelines: 16 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 32 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 366 MHz
23x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 92 vs 4

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 230 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 366 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	92 vs 4

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

129.6x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 47 Watt
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 103 vs 100

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 47 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	103 vs 100

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

103

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	4
PassMark - G2D Mark	100	103

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G84	M7
Launch date	17 April 2007	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	1348	1350
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	16	2
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	64 / 128
Shared memory		0