NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M

2.2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 225 MHz
6.7x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 225 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
PassMark - G3D Mark		218
PassMark - G2D Mark		272
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1247
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1247

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	NV43 A2	G71
Launch date	29 September 2005	29 September 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	1052
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$99.99
Price now		$99.99
Value for money (0-100)		2.77
Technical info
Core clock speed	225 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		500 MHz
Pipelines		24
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		45 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	MXM-III
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR	256
Shared memory		0