ATI Radeon 8500 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 8500 LE and NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon 8500 LE

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

11.5x lower typical power consumption: 2 Watt vs 23 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	2 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 8500 LE	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7
Code name	R200
Launch date	4 February 2002	1 February 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	2 Watt
Transistor count	60 million	27 Million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	8.1	DDR
OpenGL	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR	32 / 64 / 128
Shared memory		0