NVIDIA Quadro FX 470 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 470 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 470

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 470

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later

Launch date	12 September 2007 vs 26 July 2007

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 580 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 580 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 470	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	C79MX	M76
Launch date	12 September 2007	26 July 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	38 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	390 million
Floating-point performance		144 gflops
Pipelines		120
Texture fill rate		4.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	MXM-II
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		21.92 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1370 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3