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.

ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

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	1114
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