ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500 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 4850

NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 240 MHz
13x more texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 1.92 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
4x more memory clock speed: 1986 MHz vs 500 MHz
311.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 934 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 June 2008 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 240 MHz
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1986 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	934 vs 3

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 116 vs 79

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	116 vs 79

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

934

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

116

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4850	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
PassMark - G3D Mark	934	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	79	116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3344

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4850	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Kelvin
Code name	RV770	NV20 A5
Launch date	25 June 2008	1 October 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$349
Place in performance rating	1292	1294
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	25 GTexel / s	1.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt
Transistor count	956 million	57 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	246 mm	183 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	8.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	63.6 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1986 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR