ATI Radeon X1600 PRO vs GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	735	1356
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.31	0.42
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	GK104	RV530
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	8 November 2013 (11 years ago)	1 October 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1344	no data
Core clock speed	797 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	157 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	41 Watt
Texture fill rate	89.26	2.000
Floating-point processing power	2.142 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	112	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	390 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	12.48 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.37	0.25
Recency	8 November 2013	1 October 2007
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	41 Watt

GTX 775M Mac Edition has a 1248% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1600 PRO, on the other hand, has 143.9% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon X1600 PRO in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon X1600 PRO is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.