NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 vs ATI Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 and ATI Radeon X600 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.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400

ATI Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 212 vs 210

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 1 September 2004
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	212 vs 210

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600

8x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 32 MB
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 57 vs 24

Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 32 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	57 vs 24

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

210

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400	ATI Radeon X600
PassMark - G3D Mark	24	57
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	210

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400	ATI Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV44 A2	RV370
Launch date	1 February 2006	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	824	826
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	75 million	107 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		36 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.6 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	350 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
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