NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 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

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
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 19% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 590 MHz
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 69 vs 17

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2005 vs 1 March 2003
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 590 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	69 vs 17

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 211 vs 209

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	211 vs 209

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

211

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
PassMark - G3D Mark	69	17
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV43 A2	NV31 A1
Launch date	29 September 2005	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	825	827
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	375 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	146 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	9.44 GB / s
Memory bus width	300 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	590 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0