NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 vs ATI Radeon X600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

ATI Radeon X600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
4x more texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 36 Watt
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 500 MHz
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 57

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 March 2006 vs 1 September 2004
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 36 Watt
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	115 vs 57

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	210 vs 209

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

210

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

115

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800	ATI Radeon X600
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	210
PassMark - G3D Mark	115	57

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800	ATI Radeon X600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G70	RV370
Launch date	3 March 2006	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	869	871
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	36 Watt
Transistor count	302 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
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	35.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	550 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	256	DDR
Shared memory	0