ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE 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 5700 VE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 250 MHz
11.3x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 208 vs 33

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 September 2008 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	208 vs 33

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 161 vs 156

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	161 vs 156

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

208

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

156

161

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
PassMark - G3D Mark	208	33
PassMark - G2D Mark	156	161

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rankine
Code name	RV730	NV36 A1
Launch date	10 September 2008	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	1052	1055
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	82 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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0a
OpenGL	3.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR