ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP 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 Radeon HD 4225 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 9 Watt vs 25 Watt
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 66 vs 41
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 173

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 23 October 2003
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	66 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 173

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 380 MHz

Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 380 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

173

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
PassMark - G3D Mark	66	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	173

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RS880	NV36 A1
Launch date	1 May 2010	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	979	989
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	380 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	82 million
Texture fill rate		1.7 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Memory type		DDR