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.

 

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
69
57
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 825 826
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