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.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE

ATI Radeon X850 PRO AGP

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