NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 vs ATI Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 and ATI Radeon X300 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.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

ATI Radeon X300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 69 vs 41

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2005 vs 1 September 2004
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	69 vs 41

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X300

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	375 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Radeon X300
PassMark - G3D Mark	69	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	209

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Radeon X300
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV43 A2	RV370
Launch date	29 September 2005	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	837	838
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	375 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	1.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	107 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		36 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0