ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 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 X1800

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 425 MHz
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 130 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2006 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 425 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	130 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 249 vs 247

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	249 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

130

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

249

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X1800	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
PassMark - G3D Mark	130	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	249

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1800	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Curie
Code name	M58	C61
Launch date	1 March 2006	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	687	688
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	321 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-III	PCI
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	256
Shared memory	0