NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 vs ATI Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 and ATI 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

ATI Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 69 vs 57

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2005 vs 1 September 2004
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	69 vs 57

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600

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

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	210 vs 209

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

210

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Radeon X600
PassMark - G3D Mark	69	57
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	210

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	ATI Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	NV43 A2	RV370
Launch date	29 September 2005	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	837	839
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	375 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	1.6 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 S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0