NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE and ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 225 MHz
  • 3.3x more texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 225 MHz
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP

Essentials

Architecture Curie R400
Code name NV43 A2 R481
Launch date 29 September 2005 4 September 2005
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $279

Technical info

Core clock speed 225 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s 6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 146 million 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0b
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR GDDR3

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