ATI Radeon X550 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X550 XTX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550 XTX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
  • Around 81% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 332 MHz
  • 8.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 71 vs 8
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 January 2007 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed 400 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 600 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 71 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

  • 250x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 240
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 800 MTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 vs 240

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X550 XTX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
71
8
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
247
Name ATI Radeon X550 XTX NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark 71 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 247

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X550 XTX NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Essentials

Architecture R400 Rankine
Code name RV410 NV34 A1
Launch date 24 January 2007 6 March 2003
Place in performance rating 713 710
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s 800 MTexel / s
Transistor count 120 million 45 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 9.0b 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 4.8 GB / s 2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 600 MHz 332 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR