NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 590 MHz
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 24 vs 17

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2006 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 590 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	24 vs 17
PassMark - G2D Mark	212 vs 211

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB

Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

212

211

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
PassMark - G3D Mark	24	17
PassMark - G2D Mark	212	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV44 A2	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 February 2006	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	825	828
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	75 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.6 GB / s	9.44 GB / s
Memory bus width	350 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	590 MHz
Memory type	64	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
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