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
GPU 1
GPU 2
92
4
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 1354 1356
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