ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300 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 HD 3650 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 275 MHz
5.3x more texture fill rate: 5.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
11.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 150 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 January 2008 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	150 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 155

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	159 vs 155

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

150

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

155

159

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300
PassMark - G3D Mark	150	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	155	159

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RV635	NV34 A1
Launch date	23 January 2008	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1063	1065
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	174 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	120
Texture fill rate	5.8 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	378 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR