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.
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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS | ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 92 | 4 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 100 | 103 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS | ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla | Rage 7 |
Code name | G84 | M7 |
Launch date | 17 April 2007 | 1 December 2001 |
Place in performance rating | 1354 | 1356 |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | AGP 4x |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 7.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 1.3 |
Memory |
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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 |