NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 7700

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 425 MHz
5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 148 vs 25

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 August 2006 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 425 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	148 vs 25

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 234 vs 232

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	234 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

234

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	148	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	234

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	C61
Launch date	1 August 2006	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	748	749
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	177 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	128
Shared memory	0