ATI Radeon 9550 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9550 SE and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 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 9550 SE

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9550 SE

250x more core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 1 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 64 MB vs 32 MB

Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	64 MB vs 32 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9550 SE	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8
Code name	RV350	NV31M
Launch date	1 March 2003	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million
Boost clock speed		300 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	DDR
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	300 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0