ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 vs NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon X1300

NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1300

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 46% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 240 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
13.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 40 vs 3
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 222 vs 116

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 January 2006 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	40 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	222 vs 116

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Around 37% higher texture fill rate: 1.92 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	1.92 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

222

116

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X1300	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
PassMark - G3D Mark	40	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	222	116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	197
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	197

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1300	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Kelvin
Code name	M52	NV20 A5
Launch date	19 January 2006	1 October 2001
Place in performance rating	1300	1301
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Boost clock speed	350 MHz
Core clock speed	350 MHz	240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.4 GTexel / s	1.92 GTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	57 million
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 4x
Length		183 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	250 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0