ATI Mobility Radeon X800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X800 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Core clock speed 425 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Name ATI Mobility Radeon X800 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
PassMark - G3D Mark 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 242

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon X800 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Essentials

Architecture R400 Curie
Code name M28 C61
Launch date 1 November 2004 11 October 2004
Place in performance rating not rated 716
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 400 MHz
Core clock speed 400 MHz 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 12
Texture fill rate 4.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 160 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCI
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 9.0b 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 350 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type 128 / 256
Shared memory 0