ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 48% higher core clock speed: 668 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.9x more texture fill rate: 10.69 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 668 MHz
18.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 432 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 January 2008 vs 18 January 2006
Core clock speed	668 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	10.69 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz vs 668 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	432 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 98 vs 92

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	98 vs 92

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

432

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	432	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	92	98
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2417

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV670	G72
Launch date	3 January 2008	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1375	1376
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	668 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	427.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	10.69 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	53.0 GB / s	5.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1656 MHz	668 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2