ATI Radeon 3100 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 3100 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon 3100 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 3100 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 130 nm
4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 74 vs 17
Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 228 vs 122

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 March 2008 vs 17 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	74 vs 17
PassMark - G2D Mark	228 vs 122

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 344 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 344 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 3100 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

228

122

Name	ATI Radeon 3100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	74	17
PassMark - G2D Mark	228	122
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	370
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	370

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 3100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RS780	NV31 A1
Launch date	4 March 2008	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1265	1268
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Technical info
Core clock speed	344 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	180 million	80 million
Texture fill rate		1.4 GTexel / s
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
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
Length		191 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR