ATI Radeon 9600 TX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 TX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 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.

ATI Radeon 9600 TX

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 TX

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 2.376 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18 vs 12

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2003 vs 6 March 2003
Texture fill rate	2.376 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18 vs 12

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 297 MHz
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 650 MHz vs 540 MHz

Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 297 MHz
Memory clock speed	650 MHz vs 540 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 TX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

138

Name	ATI Radeon 9600 TX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	18	12
PassMark - G2D Mark	138	138

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 TX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Rankine
Code name	R300	NV34 A2
Launch date	7 October 2003	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1171	1172
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$149
Technical info
Core clock speed	297 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2.376 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	110 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	Floppy	1x Molex
Length		171 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.64 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR