NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 and ATI Mobility 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 6600

ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 8 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 69 vs 50

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2005 vs 1 June 2004
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	8 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	69 vs 50

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 400 MHz vs 375 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	400 MHz vs 375 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
PassMark - G3D Mark	69	50
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	209

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Mobility Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV43 A2	M24
Launch date	29 September 2005	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	882	885
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	375 MHz	400 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	8	4
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128	128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
PCIe