ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT 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 Radeon 9100 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

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

Launch date	23 June 2003 vs 12 May 2003

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
11x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 33 vs 3
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 129 vs 128

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	33 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	129 vs 128

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

128

129

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
PassMark - G3D Mark	3	33
PassMark - G2D Mark	128	129

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rankine
Code name	RS300	NV35
Launch date	23 June 2003	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1220	1221
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	2
Transistor count	76 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		1.3 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	8.1	9.0a
OpenGL	1.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR