NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 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 6800 Ultra

NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 120 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 220 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 32 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 300 MHz
27.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 138 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 February 2005 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	138 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

88.9x more texture fill rate: 480 MTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 201 vs 198

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	480 MTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	201 vs 198

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

138

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

198

201

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G3D Mark	138	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	198	201

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Celsius
Code name	NV41	NV10 A3
Launch date	24 February 2005	1 February 2000
Place in performance rating	881	882
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	220 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s	480 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	89 Watt
Transistor count	222 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	7.0
OpenGL	2.1	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s	4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	600 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	300 MHz
Memory type	256	DDR
Shared memory	0