ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 4650 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 140 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 200 MHz
26x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 208 vs 8
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 156 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 September 2008 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	208 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	156 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

47.9x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

208

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

156

152

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	208	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	156	152

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RV730	NV34 B1
Launch date	10 September 2008	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1078	1132
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Length		152 mm
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	12.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR