ATI Mobility FireGL T2 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL T2 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 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.

ATI Mobility FireGL T2

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 320 MHz
Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.28 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 171

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 320 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.7 GTexel / s vs 1.28 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	173 vs 171

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL T2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

171

173

Name	ATI Mobility FireGL T2	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
PassMark - G3D Mark	41	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	171	173

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL T2	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	M10	NV36 A1
Launch date	1 November 2003	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	994	995
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	300 MHz
Core clock speed	320 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.28 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	82 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	200 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0