ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 211 vs 209
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2007 vs 3 March 2006
Core clock speed 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed 480 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 211 vs 209

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

  • 3.3x more texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 16 vs 4
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 51
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Pipelines 16 vs 4
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 115 vs 51

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
51
115
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
211
209
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark 51 115
PassMark - G2D Mark 211 209

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Essentials

Architecture R500 Curie
Code name M71 G70
Launch date 1 March 2007 3 March 2006
Place in performance rating 823 824
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 480 MHz 400 MHz
Core clock speed 480 MHz 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 4 16
Texture fill rate 1.92 GTexel / s 6.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 107 million 302 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 400 Bit 550 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type 128 256
Shared memory no 0