ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 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 X2300 HD

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 479 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 756 MHz vs 332 MHz
6.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 49 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2007 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	479 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	756 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	49 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

417.5x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 244

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 1.916 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 244

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

247

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	49	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	247

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 HD	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Rankine
Code name	M71	NV34 A1
Launch date	1 March 2007	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	707	710
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	479 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.916 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.024 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	756 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR