ATI Radeon X1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1050 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 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 X1050

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1050

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 24 Watt vs 45 Watt

Launch date	7 December 2006 vs 18 April 2006
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	24 Watt vs 45 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.5x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 666 MHz
5.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 49
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 264 vs 245

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark	264 vs 245

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X1050
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

245

264

Name	ATI Radeon X1050	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	49	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	245	264

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1050	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Curie
Code name	RV370	G71
Launch date	7 December 2006	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	745	651
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	24 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	107 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		500 MHz
Pipelines		24
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	5.33 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	666 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	256
Shared memory		0