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.

 

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
25
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 747 748
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