ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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 Go5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 140 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
Around 65% higher memory clock speed: 660 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 60 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2005 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	660 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	60 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

285.7x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 190 vs 189

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	190 vs 189

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

189

190

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
PassMark - G2D Mark	189	190
PassMark - G3D Mark	60	8

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	M26	NV34 B1
Launch date	1 March 2005	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	920	922
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	140 nm
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	120 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.56 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	660 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR