ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 189 vs 188
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 60 vs 35

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2005 vs 12 May 2003
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	189 vs 188
PassMark - G3D Mark	60 vs 35

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 660 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 660 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

189

188

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G2D Mark	189	188
PassMark - G3D Mark	60	35

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	M26	NV35
Launch date	1 March 2005	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	960	961
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	120 million	135 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 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.56 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	660 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR