SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Comparative analysis of SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support.

SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

Differences

Reasons to consider the SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX

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

Launch date	1 January 2007 vs 8 November 2006

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

513x more core clock speed: 513 MHz vs 1 MHz
48x more pipelines: 96 vs 2

Core clock speed	513 MHz vs 1 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2

Compare specifications (specs)

	SIS Mirage 3+ 672MX	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Essentials
Code name	SISM672	G80
Launch date	1 January 2007	8 November 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Tesla
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Core clock speed	1 MHz	513 MHz
Pipelines	2	96
Floating-point performance		228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		90 nm
Texture fill rate		12.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		143 Watt
Transistor count		681 million
Memory
Shared memory	yes
Maximum RAM amount		640 MB
Memory bandwidth		63.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		320 Bit
Memory clock speed		1584 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		3.3