ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900 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 HD 3850

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 350 MHz
6.6x more texture fill rate: 9.28 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
10.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 366 vs 34

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.28 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	366 vs 34

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 258 vs 248

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	258 vs 248

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

248

258

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	366	34
PassMark - G2D Mark	248	258

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	M88	NV35
Launch date	4 June 2008	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	658	660
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	9.28 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	48.0 GB / s	17.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0