ATI Mobility Radeon X800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X800 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 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 X800

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

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 405

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X800	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
PassMark - G3D Mark		27
PassMark - G2D Mark		56

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X800	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Curie
Code name	M28	C61
Launch date	1 November 2004	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1580
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