ATI Mobility Radeon X600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X600

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 50 vs 17

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	50 vs 17

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 590 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 211 vs 209

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	590 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	211 vs 209

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

211

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
PassMark - G3D Mark	50	17
PassMark - G2D Mark	209	211

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	M24	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	840	841
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	75 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	9.44 GB / s
Memory bus width	250 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	590 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCIe