ATI Radeon 9250 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9250 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE 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 ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

  • 960x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 960 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

  • Around 4% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 240 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
Core clock speed 250 MHz vs 240 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9250 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Name ATI Radeon 9250 PCI NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 147

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon 9250 PCI NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Essentials

Architecture Rage 7 Rankine
Code name RV280 NV36 A1
Launch date 1 March 2004 1 March 2004
Place in performance rating not rated 1117
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 240 MHz 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 960 MTexel / s 1 GTexel / s
Transistor count 36 million 82 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCI AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 8.1 9.0a
OpenGL 1.4 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 3.2 GB / s 3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 400 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR

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