NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX and ATI Radeon X1600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 590 MHz
  • 20.3x more texture fill rate: 48.0 billion / sec vs 2.36 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • 16.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1951 vs 116
  • Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3350 vs 1745
  • Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3350 vs 1745
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 October 2012 vs 1 October 2007
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 590 MHz
Texture fill rate 48.0 billion / sec vs 2.36 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1951 vs 116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 vs 1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 vs 1745

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 XT

  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 42 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 356 vs 328
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 42 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 356 vs 328

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1951
116
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
328
356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
1745
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX ATI Radeon X1600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 1951 116
PassMark - G2D Mark 328 356
Geekbench - OpenCL 6047
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.831
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 1745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 1745
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX ATI Radeon X1600 XT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R500
Code name GK104 RV530
Launch date 1 October 2012 1 October 2007
Place in performance rating 818 821
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 590 MHz
CUDA cores 960
Floating-point performance 1,154 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 960
Texture fill rate 48.0 billion / sec 2.36 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 42 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 67.2 GB / s 22.08 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz 1380 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA